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The idea of this little book is to call the attention of visitors, 
and especially merchants and business men coming to New York 
to a few things it is money in pocket for any man to know. Like 
the feelers of a lobster, it may radiate and reach around in 
various directions, but there is good meat in it. 

Occasional mention is made of individuals whose names are a 
part of the history of New York, but no consideration of favor or 
reward has influenced such personal mention which appeared 
necessary to rivet a point in mentioning a fact. Advertise- 
ments of none but reliable firms or persons appear here and there 
as advertisements, but the original, or suggestive matter of the 
book has not been influenced by any advertiser or business 
patronage, nor is there to be found any advertisement in the 
reading matter disguised. 

This book will be followed by a larger one that will be more 

of a guide and directory to New York, Brooklyn, Jersey City 

and Newark, which in reality are one city, and will be alike 

original and suggestive. 

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Potter Building, - - 38 Parn Row, New Yorii, 

TT AVE, since June 15th, 1887, issued a Free Pol- 
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healthy sections and are engaged in healthy occupa- 
tions, yet it places no restrictions upon either ^m- 
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AssociatTon places no restrictions upon occupation, 
and after five years Membership, Certificates or Poli- 
cies become absolutely incontestable. 

This Association continues to furnish Life Insur- 
ance at less than One-half the rates charged under 
the old Level premium System. It has already paid 
in cash to the Widows and Orphans of its deceased 
Members vwre than $3,500,000. It is paying more 
than $5,000 in cash for death claims daily. It has 
$, 500,000 in Assets, and more than $1,200,000 cash 
surplus. It is the largest, the cheapest, and the best 
Life Insurance Association in the world. Send or 
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E. B. HARPER. President. 



M USICAL C ONSERVATORY, 

i5 EAST FOURTEENTH ST. 

Between Broadway and Fifth Ave. 



OLDEST MUSICAL INSTITUTION IN AMERICA. 

ESTABLISHED \&5li. 



Individual Instruction day and evening by capable and conscientious 
lady and gentlemen teachers. 

Piano, Violin, Organ, Guitar, Mandolin, Harp, 
Zither, Flute, Banjo, Singing, &c. 

Ladies and Children receive special and careful attention from 
MISS WATSON and her assistants. 

A CORPS OF ABLE AND RELIABLE INSTRUCTOR^ IN 

Drawing, Painting, Penmanship, Dramatic 
Art, Shorthand, Book-keeping, Type- 
writing, Languages, & Elocution. 

O TERMS MODERATE AND ACCOMMODATING. I> 

Practice Rooms with use of musical instruments free to pupils. 
Teachers sent to any part of the city. Circulars giving full particu- 
lars cheerfully sent upon application. 

J. JAY WATSON, Musical Director, 

EMMONS H. WATSON, Mariager. 

For Circulars address A, A. WATSON, Secretary, 15 East 14th St., 
New York. 



German American Real Estate 

TITLE GUARANTEE COMPANY. 

CAPITAL. - - - - $500,000 

Protects Purchasers or Mortgagees from loss or Law suits, 
by reason of undiscovered defects, by a Permanent Guarantee 
Fund, required by Law. 

Enables purchasers to close titles m Ten to Fourteen days. 

When selling with Title, guaranteed by this Company, title 
can be closed in Two days, thus saving Four weeks' time, equal to 
1-2— I per cent, in money. 

OFFICE, 34 NASSAU ST., MUTUAL LIFE BUILDING, 
203 Montague Street, Brooklyn. 



J. & W. Seligman & Co., 



COR. EXCHANGE PLACE #^ BROAD STREET, 
NEW YORK. • 

Issue Letters of Credit for Travelers, payable in any 
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on Europe and California. 



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Business established in 1835, by Mr. Abner L. Ely, who, after 

an honorable and active career, died in 187 1, and was 

succeeded by the present proprietor, Mr. Ely, 

who first became associated with 

Mr. Abner Ely in 1855. 

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OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 

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AMERICA'S SCENIC ROUTE 



Lehigh Valley 



RAILROAD. 



THE MOUNTAIN AND VALLEY SCENERY 

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P RA VERSED by this Line is unsurpassed in GRANDEUR and SCENIC liEAUTY. 
DIRECT ROUTE TO THE COAL REGIONS. DOUBLE TRACK. STEEL 
RAILS. All the latest Railroad Appliances render this the very best, and the most 
Comfortable Route TO ALL POINTS IN 



Eastern Pennsylvania, Central and Western New York 



Including Easton, Bethlehem, AUentown, Reading, Mauch Chunk, Glen Onoko, Hazleton, 
Mahanoy City, Shenandoah, Ashland, Mount Carmel, Shamokin, Glen Summit, Wilkes- 
barre, Pittston, Scranton. Ithaca, Tunkhannock, Montrose, Towanda, Gene%-a, 
Watkins Glen, Waverly, Elmira, Rochester, Buffalo and Niagara Falls. 



TWO EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY BETWEEN 

NEW YORK. PHILADELPHIA, 

F»i.TLLV[AM Cars. j- ■;• Kast Time. 

ANTHRACITE COAL IS USED EXCLUSIVELY, thus avoiding the dense volume 
of smoke that so terribly annoy passengers on Lines using Bituminous Coal. 



TICKET OFFICES : New York— General Eastern Office, No. 235 Broadway ; Depot foot 

of Cortlandt Street ; Depot foot of Desbrosses Street ; all the Offices of the Pennsyl- 

A^ania Railroad and New York Transfer Company. 

PHn..\DEi.PHi.\ — 836 and 624 Chestnut Street, and Philadelphia & Reading Depots, Third and 
Berks Streets and Ninth and Green Streets. 

E. B. BYINGTON, CHAS. H. CUMMINGS, 

Gen'l Passenger Agent, Gen'l East'n Passenger Ag't, 

Bethlehem, P.\. 235 Bko.\dw.a.v, New Yokk. 

W. B. SMITH, Ctiy Ticket Agent, 235 Broadway, New York. 



THK "LliMlTED" 

OVKH 

THE lEW YORK CENTRAL £ WM RIVER R, R, 



FOE several years the fastest train in the world has been running regularly over 
the New^ York Central & Hudson River Railroad, between New York and 
Chicago. It leaves the magnificent Grand Central Depot, in the heart of the 
great Metropolis, made up of a "Buffet, Smoking and Reading-Room Car," furnished 
with elegantly upholstered movable chairs, tables, writing desk, and other appliances 
of comfort and luxury, supplied with daily newspapers and periodicals, and stocked 
with appetizing viands, choice cigars and v^anes ; of a superbly appointed Sleeping- 
Car, of luxurious Drawing-Room Cars, and of a Dining-Car, running between New 
York and Buffalo, serving Lunch and Dinner— both meals being perfect in viands 
and appointments. The Buffet and Sleeping-Cars run through to Chicago. The 
Drawing-Room Car is replaced at Buffalo by a "Sleeper" for Chicago, and another 
'• Sleeper" is attached at Cleveland for Detroit. At Elkhart, an important .iunctioii 
in Michigan, a Dining-Car is again attached, in which a sumptuous Breakfast is served 
while the "Limited" covers the home-stretch into Chicago. While flashing on its 
way, this perfect train receives passengers from the New England States by the 
Boston & Albany, from Pittsburg and the oil regions of Pennsylvania by the Dun- 
kirk and Allegheny Valley ; from Ohio by the Bee Line, and from Indiana by the 
network of roads centering at Toledo. It also delivers its contingent to lines of the 
Vanderbilt System reaching Cincinnati, St. Louis, Columbus, and a scor5 of other 
cities, and passes over to connecting lines travelers for every point in the North, the 
Northwest, the Southwest and the West. 

All this reads simple enough ; and in actual experience the journey is so regular 
and enjoyable that one might well ask. What is there remarkable about it ? Let us 
see. Observe the rhythmic sound of the wheels as they roll on and on in steady 
progression ; there is no jarring, jolting or grinding, and the horizontal of the car is 
unchanged. These prove the solidity of an old, well-ballasted road-bed ; the 
smoothness of perfectly laid steel rails on a track free from heavy grades and sharp 
curves : and the perfection of the car builders' art. Observe, again, that the rate of 
progression is uniform— that cities, towns and stations are passed in a flash, and that 
the throb of the mighty engine drawing the train is heard with the measured pulsa- 
tions of fixed machinery. ' The Limited " is annihilating distance at the rate of fifty 
miles an hour, and the journey of near a thousand miles is being made with breaks of 
an average of more than a hundred miles apart ; that in two portions of the trip- 
between New York and Albany, and between Dunkirk and Cleveland— the locomo- 
tives run over a hundred and forty miles without a pause. Observe, once more, that 
the whole distance between New York and Buffalo, through some of the most beau- 
tiful scenery in the world, is traversed by daylight, and that in twenty-four hours, 
without fatigue or annoyance, surrounded with comforts and provided with luxuries 
that a few years ago were undreamed of, a journey has been accomplished as great 
as that from London to Rome ! 

Luxurious as the cars are which now make up this splendid train, the New York 
Central & Hudson River Railroad Company is determined to replace them with 
others even more elegant. New Buffet Cars will soon be running, provided with 
Bath Room and Barber Shop, and all cars forming the " Limited " will be illuminated 
with electric lights and warmed by steam. 




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13 & 15 BROAD STREET, 

{opposite N. Y. Stock Exchange.) 



INTEREST ALLOWED ON DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS. 

At Current jVLarket Rates. 

Stocks, Bonds, Grain, Provisions and Petroleum bought 
and sold on commission for cash, or on margin. 



Private Wire to Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia. 
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BRANCH OFFICES, 

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112 Grand St., near BroadAvay, 
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87 Hudson Street, 
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Brooklyn. 



HERP: we ARE! 

IN NEW YORK CITY 



BY MARK M. (''BRICK") POMEROY. 



The great commercial, financial, and we may as well ad J, ihi 
political metropolis of the New World. 

When you are kissing a pretty girl, do not be in a hmrj. 
That is, unless her heavy-handed and stoutly booted papa bo 
moving too rapidly upon your works with a view of encourag 
ing a general muscular action henceward. 

When you visit New York City, do not be in a hurry. - 

Stay a few days. 

Renew and extend your acquaintances. 

Look over the market, see where you can do the best, and --^^ • 

new ideas. 

Of course, if you have a regular place where you buy arti- 
cles in your line, go there. Shake hands with the boys, no matte : 
if they are bald-headed. Sally out for points, but don^t get away 
with too many pints. 

Don't be in a hurry.* 

Take a little more time. ^ 

Visit the leading retail stores and get ideas on the display 
of goods. Learn how to dress your windows, no matter wh'^r. 
kind of goods you are in. 

Anything from christening caps to baptismal fonts, caramels, 
corsets, shoes, soda water, etc., to burial cases looks better m a 
window when artistically arranged and displayed to attract at- 
tention and rivet memory than when sort of wafted m at arm 3 
length as children are run into a circus. 

Hunt around and find new articles that will add to your cus- 
tom. Look out for novelties. Everybody except persons who 



2 How TO See New York. 

prefer hairs in their butter, buy of novelties. The demand for 
them increases year by year. 

If you can't find plenty of novelty, lay in a supply of chest- 
nuts. Old stories. Ask the returned drummer for them. Ask 
him if he has any new ones. Ask the boys to show you what is 
new, novel and nice, so you can compare notes and see what is 
needed in your own town in order to make things pleasant for 
those who come in from the cross roads, hamlets and villages, 
to buy of you what you are to purchase in New York. 

The art of entertainment is never lost when it is put in motion. 

New Yorkers know how to entertain. 

Now, that you have decided to remain a few days longer than 
you intended to, it is well enough to absorb a few items of in- 
formation that may save you several dollars, much travel and 
annoyance, inasmuch as 

Here we are — 

In New York ! 



Brino- Your Wife and Have Some 

Fun. 



In view of the fact that New York city is the largest on the 
American continent, and is almost a world in, and by, and of 
itself, it would be worth your Avhile to look it over, and to see as 
much of it as possible. 

When you have occasion to visit New York on business, see 
if you cannot combine i^leasure with business. Bring your 
wife and have some fun. Ordinarily, your wife must remain 
at home, working herself to death gradually, while you are 
away on business. What is sauce for the gander is sauce for 
the goose. Bring her along to New York. Let her see the 
fashions, and how people move and act at the hotels, theaters, 
churches and at the various resorts near the city where people 
congregate for rest, recreation and refreshments. 

Do not say that you cannot afford it, because you can. 

Bring your wife to New York, let her fill her head with 
fashions, and her trunk with new goods. Let her make memo- 
randa as to how she will dress, and what she will wear on her 
return home. 

Then, when your new goods have arrived, let her come into 
the store and help herself to what she wants, and in three 
weeks she will have the town crazy, as she goes from place to 
place, giving to people an evidence that she has been somewhere, 
and brought something back Avith her. 

Other mens' wives will come into your store to buy goods, 
in order to prove to other neighbors that they can dress exactly 
as well as your wife. Therefore your mercantile business will 
be increased, and you will not only encourage the consumption or 
wearing out of goods, but at the same time you will encourage 
those who manufacture them, and thus be in many ways a 
public benefactor. 

Many of those who are employed to purchase goods for 
country merchants are careful to be accompanied, more or less, 

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4 How TO See New York 

by their wives, sisters, daiightors or other ladies who have good 
taste, and who are great help in the matter of selecting, or sug- 
gesting articles which will please feminine fancy in localities 
where goods are used. 

Visit the theaters. 

Attend the churches. 

Take time to enjoy the parks. 

Ride the entire length of the elevated railway on each side 
of the Island from the Battery to the end of the road, and this 
as far into the country as you can go, and see how much there is 
of New York city. 

You will be astonished, and have a great deal more to tell 
your neighbors of, than you ever thought to have. 

You need not be giving out old chestnuts but new pictures as 
you paint them by your talk aud tell of what you have seen. 
The more you can tell that is new to your hearers, the better off 
you will be. Bayard Taylor, Henry Ward Beecher, Rev. De 
Witt C. Talmadge, S. S. Cox, Chauncey M. Depew and other 
men of observation and brain, with what in the country is called 
"gift of gab,"' have made friends and fortunes with their mouth. 
You catch the idea ? 

Then when you are at home, as a country merchant, after 
the work of the day is done, you can sit in your store till mid- 
night, and tell your neighbors what you saw and experienced 
while visiting. This helps to make a big man of you. 

It will help you to sell goods and this is exactly what you 
want as a merchant. 

Do not content yourself, no matter whether you are here 
alone, or with some one else, merely by seeing what is to be 
seen directly on the Island of Manhattan, generally known as the 
city of New York, but take time to make excursions. 

Go down to the Battery or South Ferry, take a steamboat 
ride to Bedloe's Island, and walk around the Bartholdi Statue, 
Twenty-five cents pays the steamboat fare there and return, and 
you will have a very pleasant trip. 

Take the little steamer which plies every hour between the 
Battery and Governor's Island, and visit that delightful 
locality. 

See where the soldiers who are here to guard the city of 
New York from invasion are quartered. 



How TO See New York. 5 

See where General Hancock lived so long. Walk around 
and see how nicely everything is here kept. 

Go into the museum wherein are to be found thousands of 
relics of battles by sea and by land. 

Visit the fortifications and get an idea how war is carried on 
—in theory if not in practice. 

The little boat runs to and fro from the city to Governors 
Island every thirty minutes as a part of the Government Ser- 
vice, carrying-over and bringing back without charge those who 
would make the trip. 

Take a boat for Staten Island from the Battery, and put in 
an afternoon there witnessing the games and amusemen.ts which 
are furnished for the recreation of ten thousands of people who 
go there each week to enjoy an eight mile steamboat ride across 
New York Bay, and eight miles return. ♦ 

Ride over Staten Island or a portion of it by carriage. It 
is one of the most enjoyable trips. There are good livery stable 
establishments to be found on Staten Island, especially at the 
first landings. The roads are generally very good and as one 
drives to the higher ground three or four hundred feet above 
the sea, the view of land and ocean, cities and villages, lakes, 
bays, ponds and creeks, with threads of railway reaching off 
into the distance making a very charming picture, that you 
will never forget. 

Visit Coney Island where the so called mediocrity of New 
York gather to the number of twenty thousand on a week day, 
and one hundred thousand on a Sunday. 

You can make the trip on the large iron steamboats from 
the Battery to Coney Island, and return at any time during the 
day for fifty cents the round trip, or you can go by cars two or 
three different lines at the same rate of fare. At Coney Island 
you can roll in the sand, wade into the ocean as far as you feel 
like going, eat clams, drink ginger ale, and other fluids to re- 
fresh the arid tonsils; take in one hundred or more variety shows 
and see men and women, boys and girls, lovers and sweethearts, 
babies, dogs, etc. Enjoying surf bathing which is here to be 
had in abundance, Avith officers handy to keep you from getting 
in beyond your depth, or from trying to cross the ocean on foot. 
Coney Island is a curiosity. Once it was a barren stretch of 
sand worth something like $500,000 less than nothing. 

Now it is a summer city of the beach, a sort of piratical ren- 



6 How TO See New York. 

dezvous where one man appears to be bishop, king, commis- 
sioner, mayor, levier of taxes, collector of customs, comptroller 
of political destinies, etc., etc., so that Eobinson Crusoe on his 
lonely Island was not more of a monarch over what he surveyed 
than is the head of the political-financial combination govern- 
ing that part of New York known as Coney Island. It is a 
curiosity that should be seen, as it alone Avould give you some- 
thing to talk about for a month. 

A very delightful trip is that by steamer to Rockaway Beach 
and to Far Rockaway, especially if you want a sniff of ocean 
air — clean, fresh and invigorating. Or you can have a steam- 
boat ride to Long Branch and return for a few dimes. 

Another very charming trip is up the East River, past 
Blackwell's Island, Ward's Island, Fort Schuyler, out into Long 
Island Sound ; past Hart's Island, which is the pauper burial 
ground, and thence a mile or two beyond to Glen Island, which 
has been fitted up in magnificent style as a summer resort, and 
where the old-fashion clam bake, together with meat, drink 
and musical accompaniments can be enjoyed ad libitum. 

After that, you can wander about to see the curiosities, rest 
in the shade, enjoy the sea breeze, listen to the music, and at 
last return to say that you have never passed a more delightful 
day in your life than on this pleasure excursion. 

Another good thing to do is to visit the Charity and Correc- 
tion institutions of New York. 

In order to do this j)roperly call at the corner of 11th Street 
and Third Ave. , at the office of the Commissioners of Charities 
and Corrections. Go into the office and introduce yourself to 
Messrs. Simmons, Porter or Brennan, who are the three Com- 
missioners of Charities and Corrections for the City of New 
York, and who have about sixteen thousand persons under 
their care, comprising the prison, almshouse, work house and 
hospital population of the city, and their attendants. 

You will find these gentlemen well-posted, very pleasant and 
always willing to give or afford strangers visiting New York 
every possible opportunity to acquaint themselves with the 
workings of the Charity and Correction institutions of the city, 
which includes the Tombs, all the police courts, the prisons, 
hospitals, insane asylums, work houses, and educational estab- 
lishments, wherein children of the poor and the unfortunate 
are taught. 



How TO See New York. t 

After you shall have obtained a pass from the Commission- 
ers, you will go to the foot of East 2Gth Street, which is on the 
East and the East River side of ISIew York. 

At the foot of East 26th Street, standing in the water a little 
way from the shore, but reached from the grounds of Bellevue 
Hospital, is the "dead house," in which are kept for a day or so 
the bodies of those who are brought in from the city, fished 
out from the river, etc., and which bodies are eventually, un- 
less claimed by relatives, taken to the pauper burial ground at 
Hart's Island for interment. You can get on with a pass, if you 
are alive, and if you go on dead you can get out with a cheap 
pine cofiin costing about twenty-one cents. 

At 10 o'clock every forenoon the large and beautiful steamer 
Thomas S. Brennan, named after the popular and gentlemanly 
Commissioner of Charities, leaves this dock on a business trip 
up the East River. Here you get aboard. 

If you are early enough you will see the many prison vans 
or iron omnibuses filled with prisoners brought from the prisons 
and police courts of the city to this point for shipment to the 
Penitentiary on Blackwell's Island, and to the Work House on 
Blackwell's Island, or to the overflow Work House on Hart's 
Island. 

The Steamer Brennan is in the service of the city exclusively. 
Its business is to convey patients from the city to Charity Hos- 
pital on BlackwelFs Island, Avhich is the first landing. To con- 
vey prisoners to the Penitentiary, to the large stone building, 
which building is within a stone's throw of the Charity Hos- 
pital. 

Patients for the hospital and prisoners for the penitentiary 
are discharged at the same landing, where the officers receive 
and escort them to the hospital, and the prisoners to the peni- 
tentiary, where they are sheared, bathed, etc. , and assigned to 
the several tasks the superintendent of the Penitentiary deems 
them fit to work at. 

Relieved of this much of her load, the Brennan goes on up 
the riv^er to the Work House, landing there from 75 to 150 men 
and women each morning, who are marched off and escorted to 
the Work House, where they are giv^en work to do for a time 
altogether too short. 

Supplies for the inhabitants of the Island, which number 
several thousand, including the inmates of the Female Insan© 



8 How TO See New York. 

Asylum, which is also on Blackwell's Island, are here put off to 
be distributed. 

This done, the Brennan goes on up the East River, through 
Hell Gate, to Ward's Island, on which is the large Homoepathic 
Hospital, one of the finest of its class in the world, also the in- 
sane asylums for males. This is the largest insane asylum on the 
American continent. It covers a number of acres of ground, and 
is occupied by something like two thousand men, a large portion 
of whom are really insane, while a certain percentage are not in- 
sane, but are unfortunately run in here and kept in order to 
appease the envy, malice or ugliness of persons who delight in 
thus torturing those they have a spite against or by saddling 
their support upon the city. 

After discharging the patients and guests who come to see 
relatives in the hospital and asylums, the Brennan returns a 
little way, then proceeds up the Harlem River to Randall's Is- 
land, on which is located Mrs. Dunphy's celebrated school for 
idiotic, imbecile or feeble-minded children and homes for idiots 
who cannot be taught, and other departments of this nature, 
all connected or attached to the Charity and Correction depart- 
ment . Here also is the Foundlings' Home, where are about four 
hundred babies, from one day to four years of age, cared for by 
nurses. 

This takes the time till about half past 12, when the 
boat returns, stopping a few moments at Hart's Island, and 
reaching her dock at the foot of East 26th Street somewhere 
about 1.30 p. M., affording those who care to see a great deal in a 
little while an opportunity of obtaining information that, if not 
altogether pleasant, is certainly worth knowing. You will get 
ideas worth taking home with you. 



New York as a Summer Resort 



The more people know of New York during the summer 
months the better are they satisfied with it as a summer resort, 
or an abiding place during the hot season. During this portion 
of the year a large number of the residents of this city go into 
the country or cross the ocean to spend a season abroad. Their 
object is two fold ; the man of business needs more recreation 
than he obtains. By the time a man has nailed himself right down 
to the desk or counter, as business is carried on during the driv- 
ing season in New York for nine or ten months during the year, 
he is tired enough to rest. Naturally he wishes to get as far 
away as possible from his place of brain or bodily toil. There- 
fore, if he has the means, he skips off to Europe. By so doing he 
is beyond the reach of daily newspapers entirely for a week or 
more. 

Each year $75,000,000 of the money of Americans is spent in 
traveling in foreign countries. 

Arriving at Li'terpool or other foreign ports his attention is 
taken up with sightseeing and he bothers himself hot in the least 
about affairs at home or in the United States until he returns 
later in the season. 

During this trip abroad to other cities the business man learns 
a great deal ; he brings home with him new ideas exactly as the 
country merchant visiting New York city can here learn very 
much that is useful and on his return take with him ideas which 
he would not have obtained but for his visit to the city. 

Another class of persons in New York, unable to bear the ex- 
pense of the ocean voyage and foreign trip, unwilling to trust 
themselves to the sea, go into the country, not to enjoy them- 
selves so much as to lay off and rest for a time, wear out their 
old clothes and get acquainted with their families. Out of every 
hundred who go into the country for comfort, fifty persons at 
least will inform you on their return that they are very glad to 

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10 How TO See New York. 

p;pt back ; that thoy find New York cooler than are the majority 
(){" places in the country, especially in the farming districts, in 
valleys where the heat is almost unbearable and where the 
breezes do not play worth a cent. 

Those who come in from the country after a season of relax- 
ation are bronzed, browned, hungry and very well satisfied 
to remain in the city an indefinite time. The location of New 
York is peculiarly desirable. The city itself is on an island so 
near to the sea that the cool breezes sweeping in across the salt 
water reduce the temperature here in the summer, except im- 
mediately along the streets nearly solidly paved with stone and 
lined by immense business blocks which serve as reflectors, so 
that men and horses in these hot and narrow thoroughfares find 
life other than pleasant ; but outside of the business portion of 
cit}^ away from the tenement house district, there are homes, 
homesteads, apartment houses and dwelling houses together 
with hundreds of hotels where persons can take more comfort 
during the summer in the city of New York than they can obtain 
at the majority of places outside, The rate of board is cheaper 
in the summer than in the winter, many boarding houses being 
partly or nearly empty during the summer so that those who 
come in from the country to purchase, see the city, attend lec- 
tures, schools etc., find ample accomodation during the summer 
months at reduced rates ; the same rule applies to hotels. 

Here in New York one has everything eatable and drinkable 
that the world can produce. G-o into the country, but twenty 
miles from the city, and it is almost impossible to obtain fresh 
eggs, fresh milk, berries and other fruits, melons, spring chick- 
ens, fat turkeys, etc., because everything is run directly into the 
city to supply the cash market, which is eternal or the next 
thing to it. 

So it is that a person can live much better in his own home in 
the city of New York than in the majority of villages and settle- 
ments about New York. The modern appliances to houses, 
hotels etc. , whereby the guest has hot and coldwater in his room 
at all hours of the day or night, a hot or cold bath as he wants 
it, together with the best of everything the market affords placed 
before him at all hours of the day or night for his eating and 
drinking, makes the city a very desirable one in which to live. 

From the Southern States, strawberries and such fruits begin 
to arrive as early as February. They come by express during 



How TO 8ee New York. 1 1 

the spring months from the Sonth, then througli the summer 
months from the Middle States and the autumn from the Nortli 
ern States. 

Fruits of all kinds come from California, while Northern fish, 
such as trout, salmon, cod, etc., reach this city packed in ice as 
they are taken directly from their native waters. Add to all 
this the one fact that New York is a point from which you can 
radiate in any direction. Every day and night pleasure hoats 
are ready for the transportation of passengers up the world - 
famed Hudson River so far as Albany. A more enjoyable 
steamboat ride cannot be found in the world than this. Steam- 
ers are dodging in and out at all hours during the day and nearly 
all hours of the night from Bridgeport, New Haven, Long Branch, 
the fishing banks and places all along the shore, so that excur- 
sions are as common, as fashionable and as inexpensive as are 
the Amens at good old fashioned Methodist country prayer 
meetings, when the brothers and sisters are intent upon creating 
a good impression. ' 

If more people would come in from the country places, 
villages and small cities everywhere within the State of New 
York and New Jersey, and the New England States within reach, 
to spend weeks or months during the summer here in steady 
recreation, picking up health and obtaining information, the 
wheels of enterprise would revolve m.uch more rapidly in the 
rural districts and happiness, comfort and prosperity would be 
more general, when looking for a place to spend the summer. 



See How It Don't Burn. 



Something of a pullback from profits is the expense of insur- 
ance in ordinary country villages and small cities, where the 
appliances for extinguishing fires are more primitive than 
effective. 

As you are a man of influence among your fellowmen, and as 
your neighbors naturally visit your store after your return from 
the city, you can be of much use to j'our town or city and no little 
of profit to yourself at the same time by taking home with 
you something beside goods in boxes, bales and packages. 

Ideas are worth money. 

A new idea, if it is a good one, is very often worth more than 
a farm or a dozen farms. The more progressive and enterpris- 
ing a man is at home, the greater will be his influence, and 
other things being equal, the greater will be his profits. 

While in New York devote one day at least to the examina- 
tion of the remarkably efficient fire department of this city. 

By calling upon the commissioners and introducing yourself, 
you will be pleasantly received and afforded opportunities to 
obtain a great many new ideas, and take home something really 
beneficial, to talk about. 

While the officials of New York city are very busy men, 
they realize the fact that New York is more than a local city ; 
that it is a city of representative men from all parts of the 
world, that the trade and commerce of New York is the result 
of its location and its acquaintance with people outside and of 
their acquaintance with people inside. That the larger this circle 
of acquaintances and the better visitors are treated by those in 
authority, the more rapidly will the trade of New York increase ; 
therefore it is that they are naturally inclined to politeness and 
to the imparting of information to merchants, journalists, 
bankers and business men generally, come they from where 
they will 

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How TO See New York. 13 

By taking in the fire department you can visit different engine 
houses, and should a fire occur while you are in the city visiting 
an engine house, you can probably arrange to go with the boys 
and see how fire is fought in New York, once it breaks out. 

You will find the most modern, powerful and desirable ma- 
chinery and appliances of all kinds for fighting the dread 
element, and you Avill also see the character, physique and 
(juality of the men who are fire fighters or firemen. 

You can see how horses jump from their stalls into theii* i)lace 
beside the pole of a Fire Steamer, and in less time than you can 
take off your hat, turn it around and put it back on your head, the 
horses with the men in place on the steamer are out and away 
on what is indeed a race for life. A race, the object of which is 
to save life and property. The city of New York has the best 
fire department in the world. Its firemen are among the 
coolest, bravest, most courageous, gentlemanly and dertermined 
men to be found in the city. 

If you tell them that you are from some country village or 
distant city, they will be willing to give you all the information 
they have, so that you in turn can take this home with you and 
tell it to your neighbors. The result will be a great improvement 
to your local systems and appliances for quickly extinguishing 
fires and thus preventing great conflagrations. 

As you convince the people of your town that while you are in 
New York you are doing something beside buying goods ; that 
you are making inquiries as to how and where and by what means 
they can he benefited^ you will rise in the estimation of the 
public and of yourself, and your visit to the great city may 
result in much more of good than you now think. 

You can thus start anew the spirit of enterprise at home. 
Everything of this kind, while it benefits your neighbors gen- 
erally will be of great benefit to you, as, the better fire appliances 
at home or appliances for extinguishing fires, the cheaper will 
be your insurance and the less your liability to loss. 

Presuming that merchants pay more for insurance than do 
other persons generally, whatever you can do toward reducing 
the insurance rate, not oi\\j advances you in the estimation of 
the public but helps to swell your bank account so that you can 
give to the church, send to the heathen w^ho are in strange 
lands, or use for political purposes, providing your mind runs this 
way, or spend for recreation. 



14 How TO See New York. 

In visiting New York, it is not actually necessary to jump 
into a fire, or to take any fire home with you, but you will find 
it greatly to your advantage and to the benefit of the city where 
you live if you will take time to gather in a few ideas in this 
direction ; and take them home and sow them broadcast. Use 
them as Oakes Ames did his money — where they will do the 
most good. 



Where to Stop in New York. 



There are several expensive and very substantial stopping 
places in this city. 

One of these is the Tombs ! A large number of very promi- 
nent persons have stopped there more or less, but as a general 
thing they do not like the board. Therefore, you will do Avell 
to select some other lodging place, although this celebrated es- 
tablishment is really worth a visit. It is one of the great curi- 
osities of New York, inasmuch as it is a place where are as- 
sembled, for the time, those who are brought in by the police 
and the official drag-nets. 

If you wish to live well while in New York, patronize hotels. 

There are very many really first-class hotels in this city, 
where landlords and clerks who are thoroughly posted in their 
business, and who have a very large and valuable acquaintance, 
do everything in their power to make the stay of the visitor 
pleasant continually. Hotels where the best and freshest of every- 
thing is constantly being provided for guests and where the 
charges for entertainment are very much below corresponding 
attractions of fare, room, beds, furniture, etc. , in other cities. 

Among the hotels of New York are many which are kept 
on the European plan. You get a room which is your home 
while in the city. You go and come at any time in the day or 
night. 

You obtain your meals at this hotel or any other place as best 
suits you. Good rooms in good hotels of this class can be ob- 
tained at prices ranging from 75 cents to $2.00 per day. 

By eating at the hotel at which you stop, or at other hotels 
or dining rooms, as your appetite may be tempted, or time may 
best serve you for eating or refreshment, you pay for what you 
order according to your purse and appetite. 

Many country merchants on their arrival in New York seek 
boarding houses, of which there are nearly as many in this city 
as there are bald-headed saints in heaven, judging from the list 

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16 How TO See New York. 

of names thus far furnished. Some of these boarding houses 
are very good , their tables are supplied with the best of every- 
thing in the market, but ordinarily it is better, cheaper, and 
more beneficial to the country merchant to stop at a hotel. 

You have the advantage of seeing men from different parts of 
the country, obtaining a vast amount of information not printed 
in newspapers, and if you are reasonably cautious you will 
naturally make acquaintances, each and every time you visit 
New York, that will be a benefit to you. 

At the better class hotels you will meet manufacturers or their 
agents from other towns and cities, so that you may be able 
to bargain with and obtain goods directly from manufacturers, 
thereby augmenting your profits following sales. 

If you have one or two nights to spare and wish to see some- 
thing different from entertainments of an ordinary theatre, 
music hall, or other places of resort for wide-awake people, ask 
the proprietor or clerk at your hotel to introduce you to some 
sober, gentlemanly, well-informed person who is acquainted 
with localities, and who can show you something of New York 
by night. When you have made the acquaintance of this man, 
not alone to gratify curiosity but to see to what depths of 
poverty and what callousness of sentiment humanity can 
reach, make a tour of the cheap lodging houses which may be 
said to line Chatham street from Brooklyn Bridge to East Hous- 
ton street. Or go down into the vicinity of Oak street police 
station and examine the lodging houses there. 

You will see signs protruding from doors and windows and a 
wicked and perverse generation seeking these signs and places, 
informing you that lodging can be had at prices ranging from 
five cents to twenty-five cents per night. One must not expect 
the entire earth for ten cents a night, but he can obtain a place 
in which to sleep providing he is so drunk or so thick skinned 
as to be oblivious to noises, or indifferent to the bite of the bed 
bug which has no golden crest or coat of arms, but manages to 
get there all the same. In these cheap lodging houses doth 
the innocent bed bug gather himself together and get fat. 

Go into one of these places, and you will see benches about 
six feet long, on legs from twelve to eighteen inches from the 
floor. A hard bench six feet long and eight inches wide forms 
a very rugged bed, especially as there is nothing in the way of 
mattress, blankets or sheets thereon. 



How TO See New York. 17 

The impecuniouH tramp, the beggar, the thief, or the person 
who is hiding, enters one of these places, pays his dime to the 
man who sits at the table, and retires by laying himself out 
on the upper side of the hard plank. Some of these rooms, 
which are the lofts of a third, fourth or fifth story of a building, 
the lower part of which may be occupied by a store, will have 
from fifty to a hundred planks, each one occupied at night at a 
rental of ten cents. 

The tramp goes in, pays his dime, sleeps if he can, and about 
daylight is hustled out. The windows are opened and fresh 
air at last works itself into the room. A man with a mop and 
several pails of water gets in his work during the forenoon, so 
that by night the " elegant cheap lodging house" is again in 
order for the next crowd. Some of those who visit these places 
in order to sink into the arms of Morpheus are so full of various 
slops the stomach will not contain that they unload while 
sleeping or trying to sleep. Quite often a person who is not 
used to turning on a bed of this class, goes off slap bang upon 
the floor. If he is not too drunk, he climbs back to the plank. 
If he is very drunk he occupies the floor, and if he rolls away 
from the original location it is supposed that he has abandoned 
his claim, and the next comer is assigned to the same plank. 

If you visit these places, it is well to go upon stilts, or be very 
careful, and not pick up the little specimens of insect life, or to 
stand long leaning against the wall or a door jam, lest you find 
yourself much more lively on going out than when you came in. 

Another class of these cheap lodging houses consists of sus- 
pended bunks made of coarse cloth on which a man can stretch 
himself, as stewed pumpkin is spread on a cloth that it may be 
strained or the water permitted to drip away therefrom. 

Beds of this class are of a higher grade than those of planks. 

In some of these lodging houses a sheet about six feet long 
and two feet wide is furnished with the cloth bed, and when at 
the end of a month the sheet informs its neighbor in a wash 
tub that thirty or more odd persons have by it been covered 
and. protected from gaze since it was in the tub, the reminis- 
cences are very charming. 

In some of these cheap lodging houses, in one corner of the 
room, is a tank into which cold water flows, and around or 
about the side of which men gather in the early morning to 
take their regular turn at washing, wiping themselves upon a 



18 How TO See New York. 

mottled towel that was originally a very coarse cloth and in 
time would become a valuable fertilizer. 

The keepers of these cheap lodging houses, some of which are 
a little better than above noted, make money steadily. With 
two or three hundred dollars a year they can get along, as 
a hundred dollars expended in planks or in very cheap cots, or 
bunks, fit a large room up in gorgeous style. The owner of the 
lease, or rather the proprietor of the lodging house, sits at the 
head of the stairs by a table. Close to him there is generally 
a large club, and quite often one of these solid, cast-iron safe 
style of bull dog, very much given to jaw. With a club, a bull 
dog and a revolver, the proprietor who knows his business has 
very little trouble with any of his guests ; that is, the trouble is 
not of long duration. 

His receipts vary from five to ten or fifteen dollars per night 
for the use of a room that does not cost him one dollar per day, 
and for furniture which is of no account whatever. 

In these places, that is, if you go in about midnight, as you 
can generallyget in through a good guide and a moderate tip to the 
proprietor of the lodging house or his clerk, you will see guests 
from fifteen years to ninety, people of all ages but of one gen- 
eral condition of poverty, ninty-nine cases out of a hundred re- 
sulting from deliberate determination of the person to go down 
hill instead of up, or from willingness to be a floater, a bum- 
mer, a beggar, or a catcher-on. 

In the lodging houses where water is supplied, especially dur- 
ing the summer nights, you will find a large percentage of the 
sleepers entirely naked. This is also the case to quite an ex- 
tent in the winter, as the rooms are kept warm, and when filled 
with sleepers the foul air becomes hotter and more foul until 
the routing-out time in the morning. 

Then you will see the tramp getting up, shaking himself, 
twisting his arms and legs to get motion into them, taking a 
sort of a hand-sprinkled bath in the tank, dry himself by mo- 
tions, put on his old duds, providing he has not been fortunate 
enough to get hold of some better ones by mistake, then to sally 
out as an early riser to enjoy the morning air, and beg a nickle 
or a penny from each and every one from whom such things 
can be obtained. 

This is the life, so called, which swarms in the cheap lodg- 
ing houses of New York. They are good institutions to visit, 
especially if you wish to see upon how little a human being 
can live. 



When Your Neighbors Ask You 



It is natural for persons to ask questions, and it should be a 
great pleasure, especially to a merchant, to answer them cor- 
rectly. 

When you are talking in your store to those who call in of an 
evening or a wet afternoon to rest, give your neighbors a rest 
and talk about New York City. 

Tell them that there are now twenty-three horse car lines that 
carry passengers to almost every nook and corner of the city, 
and that the fare on any of the lines is but five cents, even if 
you ride ten miles. 

That it is a long walk from the Battery up Broadway to First 
street, which is near Houston street, and then on to Two Hun- 
dred and twenty-second street, the highest-numbered street in 
New York; then you reach Yonkers. 

There are one hundred and three asylums and homes in New 
York City, where nearly all classes of weak and worn-out per- 
sons are cared for — exclusive of the Custom House, where sever- 
al superannuated politicians are hanging on by one eyelid, so 
to speak. 

To keep society folks alive and caterers busy, there are ninety- 
three clubs in New York — but they are outside of and not dis- 
turbed by policemen's clubs. 

With twenty-nine hospitals in New York, almost everybody 
can be fixed up, and if not made good as new, can be greatly im- 
proved. Nearly all these hospitals are first-class — Gouverneur 
Hospital, under the control of the Commissioners of Charities 
and Corrections, being the worst and the worst managed of any 
in the city. 

There are forty-three secret societies in New York, exclusive 
of their numerous branches. 

Thirty-nine different countries, or governments, have consuls 
in this city to look after the interests of their people who may 
be here on business or pleasure. 

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20 How TO See New York. 

The school children ot New York are taught how to become 
Presidents, etc., in eighty-three grammar and forty-eight pri- 
mary schools. 

The park police officers are superintended by one captain, five 
sergeants, and five roundsmen. 

Persons desiring to transact business with the Customs au- 
thorities can find the Custom House open from 9 a. m. until 4 
p. M., Sundays excepted. 

Local conflagrations are attended to by thirty engines and 
nineteen hook and ladder companies. These are superintended 
by twelve battalion chiefs, a chief and assistant chief. 

In the Central Park the same rules apply to bicyclers as to 
visitors on horseback or in coaches. Bicyclers are not allowed 
to ride more than two abreast, and tricyclers single file. 

The following are the names of the principal markets in the 
city: Catharine, Centre, Clinton, Essex, Farmers', Fulton, 
Fulton Fish, Jefferson, Manhattan, Tompkins, Union, Washing- 
ton, and West Washington. 

There are sixty numbered piers on the North Eiver and seven- 
ty-three on the East River. The highest-numbered pier on the 
North River is at the foot of Thirtieth street and on the East 
River at Fourteenth street. 

The following are the names and respective sizes of the princi- 
pal parks in this city: Battery, 10 acres ; Bryant, 5; Central, 
843 ; East River, 4 ; Jeannette, 7-8 : Madison Square, 6 ; Manhat- 
tan Square, 19 ; Morningside, 31 ; Mount Morris, 20 ; Riverside, 
177 ; Stuy vesant Square, 3 ; Tompkins, 10 ; Union Square, 3, and 
Washington Square, 9. 

There are more deaths than births each year in New York, 
which can be said of no other city in the world, and the majority 
of deaths are of children under four years of age, whose parents 
are too poor, or too dirty, or too ignorant, or too brutal to care 
for them. 

Among the greatest enemies of the poor in New York, or any- 
where else, are those who teach that there is no property in 
land •, that all land should be owned in common, thus educating 
the poor to live without a desire to acquire and own a home 
that will be theirs forever, or till sold. The best citizen is not 
the person who teaches or who believes that a rented farm or a 
rented place in which to live is preferable to a positive home, 



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New York and Brooklyn Bridge. 



It is for New York and Brooklyn to lead the entire world in 
the line of wonders, showing what brains and genius can plan 
for muscle and money to build and pay for. 

The so-called Brooklyn Bridge is the greatest, most wonderful 
work in the world, xl bridge that spans a great and deep river 
unites two cities, with no interruption to the vast amount of 
shipping that goes on underneath. A bridge that is worth a 
long journey to see, to walk over, to ride over, to occupy as a 
point of observation when looking down, down, down directly 
beneath to the steam and sailing craft plying the waters, or when 
you wish to look up stream and down, out upon beautiful New 
York Bay, and over the city-covered country to be seen for miles 
and miles, till the brain is full and the eyes are tired. 

These facts relating to the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, 
of which W. A. Roebling was the chief engineer, are worthy of 
thought, as indicating the mightiness and massiveness of the 
great work : 

Construction commenced Jan. 3, 1870 ; size of N. Y. Caisson, 
172x102 feet ; size of Brooklyn Caisson, 168x102 feet ; timber and 
iron in caisson, 5,253 cubic yards ; concrete in well holes, cham- 
bers, etc., 5,669 cubic feet ; weight of N. Y. caisson, about 7,000 
tons; weight of concrete filling, 8,000 tons; N. Y. tower con- 
tains 46,945 cubic yards masonry ; Brooklyn tower contains 38,- 
214 cubic yards masonry ; length of river span, 1,595 feet 6 in.; 
length of each land span, 930 feet ; length of Brooklyn approach, 
971 feet; length of N. Y. approach, 1,562 feet 6 in.; total length 
of bridge, 5,989 feet ; width of bridge, 85 feet ; number of cables, 
4 ; diameter of each cable, 15 3-4 inches ; first wire was run out 
May 29, 1877 ; cable-making commenced, June 11, 1877 ; length 
of each single wire in cables, 3, 579 feet ; length of wire in 4 
cables, 14,361 miles ; weight of 4 cables, inclusive of wrapping 
wire, 3,588 1-2 tons ; ultimate strength of each cable, 12,200 tons ; 
weight of wire [nearly] , 11 feet per pound ; each cable contains 
5,296 parallel, galvanized steel, oil-coated wires, closely wrapped 

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to a solid cylinder 1") 3-4 inches in diameter ; depth of tower 
foundation below high water, Brooklyn, 45 feet ; depth of tower 
foundation below high water, New York, 78 feet ; size of towers 
at high water line, 140x59 feet ; size of towers at roof course, 
126x53 feet ; total height of towers above high water, 672 feet ; 
clear height of bridge in centre of river span above high water, 
at 90 degrees F., 135 feet ; height of floor at towers above high 
water, 119 feet 3 inches ; grade of roadway, 3 1-4 feet in 100 feet ; 
height of towers above roadway, 159 feet ; size of anchorages at 
base, 129x119 feet ; size of anchorage at top, 117x104 feet ; height 
of anchorage, 89 feet front, 85 feet rear ; weight of each anchor 
plate, 23 tons ; bridge opened. May 24, 1883. 

The following historical incidents and statements will interest 
those who delight in knowing of or hearing of works that mark 
man's nearness to God, the Great Creator of all. 

From January 3, 1870, to May 24, 1883, was a long time to 
work and wait, but working, as a sharp sauce to waiting, brings 
results in time. 

Twenty-five years ago the subject of a suspension bridge be- 
tween New York and Brooklyn began to be agitated. Its earliest 
advocate, and probably original projector, Julius W. Adams, of 
New York City, His first idea was to span the river from 
Brooklyn Heights, at Montague street, to Broadway in New 
York. But money and courage, practical science and popula- 
tion, to justify such a vast undertaking, were wanting in that 
day. Nevertheless, Colonel Adams never lost interest in the 
subject, and finally found an appreciative listener in the person 
of Mr. William C. Kingsley. Being accustomed to enterprises of 
great magnitude, and withal a public-spirited citizen, Mr. K'ings- 
ley became convinced of the advisability and practicability of a 
suspension bridge. He interested a few other gentlemen, among 
whom were Senator Henry C. Murphy and Hon. J. S. T. Strana- 
han, and steps were immediately taken to forward the project. 
A new plan was then devised by Colonel Adams, which contem 
plated a bridge from Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, to Chatham 
Square in New York. It was a light and comparatively inade- 
quate structure, but the friends of the enterprise took the draw- 
ings to Albany, and so stoutly argued their case that in 1866 
the Legislature granted a charter to the New York and Brooklyn 
Bridge Company. Privilege was thereby given to the company 
to expend five millions of dollars, of whicli $3,000,000 was to be 



How To Skk Nkw York. 23 

appropriated by the City of Brooklyn as the greatest beneficiary , 
$1,500,000 by the City of New York, and $500,000 by private 
stockholders. An act of Congress was also obtained, giving the 
company permission, under certain restrictions, for the protec- 
tion of navigation, to bridge an arm of the sea. 

The gentlemen composing the first board of directors were 
deeply impressed with the responsibility imposed upon them. 
An enterprise of such magnitude, and involving engineering 
problems of unprecedented difficulty, required the most skillful 
professional supervision. As soon as the sanction of the law and 
the favorable verdict of the two cities had been obtained, all 
eyes were turned toward John A. Roebling, the master bridge 
builder of the world. Mr. Roebling was then in the prime of 
his powers, and in possession of the most valuable experience ; at 
the time having just completed the great bridge at Cincinnati, 
which, excepting the subject of our present sketch, is the most 
remarkable structure of its kind. 

Mr. Roebling's services were engaged ; he removed to Brook- 
lyn, and the office of the bridge company was formally estab- 
lished in the building of the Daily Union. The newly appointed 
engineer-in-chief then devoted himself for months to close calcu- 
lation, and finally produced the plans and specifications which 
have been substantially followed to the present day. Their won- 
derful accuracy was never doubtful ; but the modest Mr. Roeb- 
ling insisted upon a council of engineers to revise them. The 
bridge company accordingly summonedthe best talent which the 
profession could afford. 

A little scientific congress thereupon assembled in Brooklyn. 
In the hands of these experts Mr. Roebling s papers were placed, 
and with great zeal and fidelity the entire work was reviewed 
and proved. The consulting engineers expressed their complete 
satisfaction. 

Between the completion of the bridge on paper and the inaug- 
uration of construction, a distressing event took place. This 
Avas the death of Mr. Roebling, in 1868. It was difficult to be- 
lieve that the loss would not prove irreparable, and yet in fact 
Providence had preserved him to be the real builder of the 
bridge, although not a hammer had been lifted when he died. 
His son, Colonel W. A. Roebling, who was already associated 
with the work, enjoyed the confidence and shared the ability of 
his father. The board of trustees appointed him chief engineer 



24 How TO See New York. 

— which position he held during the entire progress of 
construction. Associated with him were the following emin- 
ent professional staff : Mr. C. C. Martin, principal assistant 
engineer ; Colonel W. H. Payne, in charge of superstructure ; 
Messrs. F. Collingwood and S. Probasco, in charge of the 
New York approach ; Major G. W. McNulty, in charge of the 
Brooklyn approach. 

All being now in readiness, the work of actual construction 
was commenced January 2d, 1870. The huge caissons, or plat- 
forms of timber and iron on which the towers now rest, were 
built, that for Brooklyn at Greenpoint, and that for New York 
at the foot of Sixth street), and towed down the river like rafts. 
The Brooklyn caisson arrived first, and was securely anchored 
in its place. Upon its broad surface, 102x168 feet, an army of 
masons at once began to place granite blocks from Maine, slowly 
sinking the caisson; while an army of diggers in the interior 
removed the earth and boulders, seeking a solid foundation for 
the prodigious weight that was to be imposed. 

The romance of life in the caisson had a certain fascination 
for people above ground, but it was an unpleasant reality to 
laborers below. To resist the pressure of water it was neces- 
sary to force a condensed atmosphere into the great cham- 
ber. In the New York caisson the pressure of air at the last 
was equal to 35 pounds to the square inch. Breathing was a 
labor, and labor extremely exhausting. Yet brave men sub- 
jected themselves to physical suffering of this sort day after 
day, that the great work might go on, until, in many cases, nerv- 
ous diseases and paralysis would follow. 

One afternoon word was brought up to the upper world that 
the Brooklyn caisson was on ^re.^ The engineers were at once 
notified, and set themselves resolutely to confront the unexpected 
and, indeed, appalling danger. Some workman's candle had ig- 
nited the oakum with which the seams were caulked. Unnoticed 
at the time, the fire crept upward and attacked the mass of tim- 
ber, 15 feet thick, of which the roof of the caisson was composed. 
Here it was almost inaccessible, by reason of the superincumbent 
mass of granite, and the fact that the ceiling of the caisson was 
as yet unaffected. Tlie workmen were not themselves aware of 
the fire, when they were quietly summoned to come up, and 
firemen took their place. 

Streams of wat3r were directed upon the fire through auger 
holes drilled for the purpose, but unsuccessfully. Then exhaust 



How TO See New York. 25 

steam was used in the same maimer, and, to the great rehef of 
the anxious watchers, the flames disappeared. But the carpen- 
ters, who were directed to ascertain the extent of the damage, 
upon removing a portion of the ceiling, found that the fierce 
element was still raging with what appeared to be inextinguish- 
able fury. If it could not be checked the whole tower, which 
was then pretty well advanced, would soon tumble in ruin 
through the smoldering caisson to the river s bed. Colonel 
Roebling was summoned at midnight, and at once resolved to 
flood the work. The pressure of air was withdrawn ; the water 
oozed through every seam, assisted by a deluge from above, 
and in a few hours the caisson was thoroughly saturated. 

This occurred on Thursday. On the following Monday the 
waters had been expelled, and an examination revealed the wel- 
come fact that the damage was not irreparable. To avoid a 
similar danger, the interior of the New York caisson was lined 
with sheet iron. 

The Brooklyn caisson rests upon a firm bottom, at a depth of 
45 feet below high water. On the New York side, however, a 
satisfactory foundation could not be found at a less depth than 
78 feet. When the caissons had finally settled in their perma- 
nent bed, they were filled with concrete laid in sections, before 
which the workmen gradually retired, until the whole was a 
solid mass as enduring as the granite above them. So true and 
substantial are the foundations, that the great towers, each 
weighing 90,000 tons, have not deflected in the slightest degree 
from the perpendicular, and have only settled about one inch, 
which is accounted for by the greater compression of the wood 
in the thick roofs of the caissons. 

And now, while the towers are growing apace, the money gave 
out in the treasury. Since Mr. Roebling's plans were accepted, 
it had been well known that the amount appropriated in 1866 
would be grossly inadequate for the completion of the bridge 
Thirteen millions, instead of five, were required. Nevertheless, 
it was determined to proceed with the work, and make a prac- 
tical demonstration under the public eye, before asking for more. 
It was not until 1875 that Mr. Kingsley, on behalf of Brooklyn, 
and Mr. John Kelly, on behalf of New York, went to Al- 
bany as commissioners to solicit legislation granting an addi- 
tional eight millions. By this time every one realized that a 
work so important and promising must not be alio wed to lag 



26 How TO See New York. 

for want of funds. The law Avas readily passed, and the cities 
voted the money in the same proportion as before — two-thirds of 
the amount from Brooklyn, and one-third from New York. At 
the same time, and in the same manner, the cities assumed the 
stock of the private stockholders ($500,000), that the bridge 
might remain an absolutely i^ublic work forever. 

Since the tower of Babel and the great pyramid of Egypt, 
there have been no more massive structures. Block upon block 
the granite tiers were laid, until a total height of 278 feet above 
high water was attained. The New York tower is thus 356 feet 
high from the foundation. Further inland the equally ponder- 
ous anchorages were progressing, and although not so familiar 
because largely concealed by the surrounding buildings, are not 
the least important or least expensive details of the bridge. Still 
lower, structures of solid masonry support the approaches. 

On May 29th, 1877, a single wire was carried across the river, 
attracting much attention as the first connecting link, with the 
promise of greater things. The process of cable-making now 
commenced. Each cable is composed of 5,296 thicknesses of wire 
laid parallel. The wire is continuous in varying lengths, joined 
by a small screw coupling, which can never unscrew, the inven- 
tion of Colonel Roebling and A. V. Abbott. At the anchorage 
the wire " returns " around a " shoe," and so is carried from 
shore to shore until the cable is complete. It is then closely 
wrapped, forming a solid cylinder 15 3-4 inches in diameter. The 
total length of each cable is 3,578 feet, and it contains 3,589 miles 
of wire. 

Upon the four great cables thus composed, the suspended 
superstructure depends. To avoid any lateral strain upon the 
towers, the cables are in no way fastened to them, but rest on 
movable " saddles" at the point of contact. These saddles, with 
their burdens, move to and fro upon 45 iron rollers of 3 1-2 inches 
diameter, which readily yield to the varying tension of the 
wires as the weight is shifted from the land to the river span, or 
vice versa. 

A temporary structure, called the "foot-bridge," Avas thrown 
across the river during the cable-making, for the convenience of 
construction. It was much higher than the roadway of the 
permanent bridge, following the cables over the summits uf the 
towers, instead of passing through the arches. A trip across 
the foot-bridge on a clear, cool day, afforded an exciting and 



How TO See New York. 27 

pleasurable novelty. Tlic imn('ciist(»in('<l licnd would he dizzy, 
and both hands nervously (dut^-h the wire hand-rails. Between 
the slats on whicdi one walked Avere glimpses of gleaming water, 
and decks of toj' ships and ferry boats with pigmy passengers. 
As the walk was but three feet wide, a ribbon through the air, it 
easily suggested a reminiscence of the narrow bridge Al Sirat, 
over which Mohammedans believe thnt t-he spirits of the de- 
parted must pass to paradise. The faithful tremble, but cross 
in safety-, while unbelievers topph^ over into the fearful gulf. 
To avoid such thoughts, the traveler could look abroad and get 
distraction and delight from the wide panorama which the 
vicinity of New York affords. 
The bridge is a little more than one mile in length. It cost: 
For construction, about _ _ _ $11,000,000 
For real estate, about _ _ _ _ 4,000,000 



Total, - - - $15,000,000. 



Not Too Many Samples. 

The country merchant and a large number of his cousins who 
are not merchants, delight in coming tu New York, and in 
obtaining samples. 

There are many sample rooms here where wet goods are tried 
and smacked down with a gusto, and where dry goods, jewelry, 
patent medicines and other things not down on the regular bill 
of fare, are sampled, and samples obtained for home con- 
sumption. 

Do not buy everything that may be offered you on the streets, 
no matter if you run against the novelties by daylight and in a 
public park. 

Retaining old acquaintances is often expensive. The forming 
of new ones is often still more so. There is not a line of business 
in this city that does not have its agents out by day and by 
night. In fact. New York is a city of many ramifications, so 
that to follow or explore all of them would be expensive and 
very tiresome. 

If you are a humane nian, and really wish to do a kind act 
that will line your way farther on toward Heaven, go to 
a foundling home, select some innocent. Heaven-sent, but 
Hades-held-on-to child, and arrange to adopt it ; take it home 
and bring it up to be a good and generally useful man or woman. 

But pause ere you hitch fast to the siren who sails in her latest 
styles to catch the chuckle-headed moths that consider bright 
eyes as candles that they can fly into and out of. 

Do not over-purchase of goods of any kind while you are in 
New York, unless you are sure you are riding a rising market. 
Do not drink all the beverages that may be offered you, lest you 
over-purchase. Do not visit all the places you may know to 
exist, for the ways and gifts of some people are not really useful 
for country consumption. 

Out from the birth-places in tenement houses and elsewhere in 
large cities, where children and kittens have each to learn sharp- 

28 



How TO Sek New York. 29 

ness in the gutters, there come each year thousands who grow to 
be men and women with no greater ideas than to catch on and to 
liold fast to any bone or bottle that can be made to furnish meat 
or drink. Sharp, deceptive, unprincipled males and females, 
who have learned to become all things to all persons, only 
that pence comes from the pounding. 

Not long since a prominent man in this city, who ought to 
have known better than to have caught on as he did, sampled a 
vivacious young lady who at fourteen years had married and 
in a week or ten days fixed her husband so that he took a ticket 
of leave. Then she walked up street and was followed by 
the Colonel. He interviewed her for a lark and a laugh, and 
the last heard of him he was a Lafayette with a bullet hole in 
his body. 

At first she w^as serenely vivacious and handy at getting about. 
She held fast to the Colonel, and married a namesake of the fight- 
ing family that has made Rowan County, Kentucky, a dark and 
bloody ground. Then the Colonel wafted the husband and his 
trunks from the den of his Delilah, and was monarch of all he 
surveyed. Following the heated term in the humid summer of 
1887, when came August and the watermelon season, Ella 
Harvey, as she named herself, fired a wad of Galena into the 
physical system of her Colonel, who retired in as good order as 
possible, not to die, but to remember that sampling is not the 
best business that a man of family can engage in. With a 
rare generosity, incidental to men whose opinions fit them 
lightly, he forbore to prosecute the one who bored him, and she 
was left to attach to some other gay and handsome man. 

Country merchants are generally good looking and so well 
informed that they do not bite a very large number of bare 
hooks, but at the same time this little volume would be incom- 
plete if attention was not called to the danger of over-buying, 
or of reaching for too many samples. 

Better put your money into calico, tea, coffee, sheetings, rib- 
bons and other articles that will bear transportation and that 
inventory to better show and advantage than some other things. 



Get AloncT, John, All Over New York. 



How to get about New York City is a puzzler to an idiot or to 
a person who is not acquainted more or less with the map of the 
city — the location he wishes to visit. 

If you enter the city by that great artery or line of travel, the 
New York Central Railway, you will land at the magnificent 
Grand Central Depot, virtually in the heart of the city, and by 
all odds the most convenient centre that New York contains. 

This brings you into the roomy depot at Forty-second Street, 
each side of Fourth Avenue. From here you can take the elevat- 
ed trains direct (fare five cents) to the Northern or Southern 
parts of the city, by the Third or Second Avenue Elevated Rail- 
ways, that go South to the lower end of the Island, at South Ferry, 
close to the Battery, or North to Harlem, to 129th Street, or by 
the Sixth and Ninth Avenue Elevated to 155th Street above Har- 
lem on the Hudson River side of the city. The cars on the ele- 
vated roads make fifteen miles an hour. 

From the Grand Central Depot, into which come the trains 
from New England, as well as by the great N. Y. Central Railway 
from the West, you can get to all the ferries on the east side or 
south end of the Island, or make direct connections by street 
cars. You can also go by horse cars of the Fourth Avenue line 
north or south to Madison Square, Union Square, and so on down 
Fourth Avenue and into Broadway at the Brooklyn Bridge, Post- 
office, City Hall Park, close to the Astor House. By this trip 
you pass and run close to nearly all the prominent hotels of New 
York City, so that you can easily reach them by asking the con- 
ductor of the car to let you off at the nearest point to the hotel 
you decide to stop at. 

Or, you can take a cross-town line of horse cars at the Grand 
Central Depot on Forty-second Street and ride from there to the 
East River or to the Hudson River, straight across the city, con- 
necting with all the railway lines that run north and south, or 



How TO See New York. 31 

lengthwise the Island, and thus be landed for five or ten cents 
within a block or so of almost any place in the city you wish 
to go. 

From the Grand Central Depot (which we choose as a starting 
point because of its superior advantages of location, and its 
greater convenience to those who thus land in New York), down 
town is that portion of the city towards the Battery, lower Broad- 
way and the lower-numbered streets, and uptown is up the 
river to the higher-numbered streets, or to 222d Street, city 
limit. 

Starting from Fifth Avenue, the cross streets are numbered 
each way, as East Forty-second Street and West Forty-second 
Street. No. 1 East Forty-second Street is on the East side of 
Fifth Avenue. No. 1 West Forty-second Street is on the West 
side. So with all other streets crossing the Island, and thus 
crossing Fifth Avenue. In going along a street you will find the 
even numbers on the lower or down-town side and the odd num- 
bers on the uptown side of the street — No. 1 being opposite No, 
2, In London the numbers run right along 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, etc, on 
one side of the street clear to its end, then continue back on the 
opposite side, so that No. 399 might be opposite to No. 1, while 
in New York 399 would be opposite 398, as No. 9 would be oppo- 
site No, 8. This rule governs except on lower Broadway, where 
in certain localities, as opposite the Postoffice, the street is 
numbered London style, and farther down Broadway several 
numbers are missing entirely. 

There are four lines of elevated railroad^ in New York City, 
abbreviated to " L '' roads. They are the 2d, 3d, 6th and 
9th "L" lines. All of them start from South Ferry and 
the Battery, at the lower end of the city, and form a double 
ox-bow line to the upper end of the city, but with no elevated rail- 
way cross line or bar at the upper end of the bow. A street-car 
cable line on 125th Street enables persons to quickly cross the 
Island, so that if they have ridden on the elevated from the 
Battery, along the East River or in sight thereof, as they ride 
on a level with many of the house tops, they can cross for five 
cents by the cable line from Second Avenue to Ninth Avenue 
line on 125th Street, and return by elevated road to starting 
point at the Battery. The distance these elevated roads are 
from the street below varies from twenty to one hundred feet. 



32 How TO See New York. 

More than 500,000 persons ride on th(-sp roads each day without 
accident, though they leave all manner of bundles, even to 
babies, in the cars as they hurry out. You can look into the 
second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh stories of houses 
and tenement buildings as you ride by, seeing all sorts of things 
going on within, from making love, spanking babies, changing 
clothes, cooking, eating, playing cards, running sewing 
machines, etc., as men, women and children here in their homes 
act their parts in the great drama of life. 

If you wish to see Ne2o York ride the full length of the Third 
and the Ninth Avenue Elevated Railways. 

This elevated railway system is the invention of Dr. R. 
H. Gilbert, who in 1851 was a young druggist in Corning, New 
York, and a friend and chum of the writer hereof, who was then 
an apprentice in the office of the Corning Journal, owned then 
as now by Dr. George W. Pratt. About 1868 Dr. Gilbert first 
brought his idea of a "railway on stilts" to New York City and 
for a long time tried to interest capitalists in the work of build- 
ing one in this city. At last one was started, and run in Green- 
wich Street. Dr. Gilbert lived to see his idea a wonderful 
success and to be one of the directors in the company that grew 
out of his efforts. He died a year or so ago of paralysis. Million- 
aires and the millions now are benefited as his ideas took form 
and root and were expanded to environ New York and to become 
great necessities and established facts in other cities. Returning 
to the subject, how to get about New York. There are over forty 
lines of horse cars and cable cars in New York City. Chief of 
these are the Third Avenue line, one of the oldest and dirtiest, 
extending from City Hall Park and Postoflfice to Harlem, the 
extreme upper end of the Island and beyond. 

Madison Avenue, or Fourth Avenue line from Postoffice to 
Fourth Avenue, then up Fourth Avenue and into Madison 
x\venue, and so on alongside Central Park to 138th Street. 

The Broadway Line (for which the city is and ever will be 
under obligations to Jacob Sharp, whom the New York Alder- 
men blackmailed, as is stated, and for which suffering of black- 
mail Sharp was tried and convicted of paying out money 
corruptly), up Broadway to 4.5th Street, then up Seventh 
Avenue (crossed by Broadway at this i)oint) to 59th Street, 
Central Park. 



How TO See New York. 33 

Sixth Avenue Line, from Broadway and Vesey Street to Sixth 
Avenue, and up Sixth x\ venue (passing within two blocks of 
the Grand Central Depot) to Central Park (59th Street). 

Belt Line, from Battery along the East River front to 59th 
Street, across 59th Street, and down to Battery again on North 
River front (west side). This line passes all ferries, steamboat 
and steamship docks, and is handy as a pocket in a shirt. 

Cross- Toicn lAnes cross the city from river to river, at Canal 
Street, Grand Street, Houston Street, 14th Street, 23d Street, 42d 
Street, 59th Street and 125th Street. 

Boulevard Line (green car) passes through 42d Street in front 
of Grand Central Depot, up the Western Boulevard to Riverside 
Park and General Grant's tomb. 

The fare on all the lines is five cents. 

Stages. — There is now but one line of stages (or omnibuses) in 
the city. The route is from the corner of South Fifth Avenue 
and Bleecker Street up Fifth Avenue to Central Park. These 
stages, or coaches, are a great improvement over the ' ' 'busses " 
used for so many years in New York. They are handsome in 
appearance, are drawn by large, well-kept horses, and the drivers 
are neatly uniformed. There are seats for twelve persons inside 
and six on top. A ride the full length of this line, known as the 
"Fifth Avenue coaches," is here recommended, as it leads 
through a most superb part of the city. Ladies frequently ride 
on top, and there is no impropriety in so doing. The stages pass 
one block west of the Grand Central Depot 

Cabs and Carriages, — Before hiring a cab or carriage, he sure 
to make an exact agreement ivith the driver as to the charge. 
Fares are high, but the driver will often try to get more than is 
legally due him ; and a wrangle is likely to ensue, unless a bar- 
gain is made beforehand. 

Hansoms, or open London Cabs, have become popular. It is 
easy to get in and out, and the passenger has an uninterrupted 
view. A pleasant way of seeing the city, is to hire one of these 
vehicles by the hour and be driven through the principal streets. 
By applying at the hotel office, cabs or carriages with trust- 
worthy drivers may be obtained at the regular rates, and no 
trouble will be had. This is the best way if you wish to see New 
York. 



34 How TO See New York. 

City Ordinances fix the the legal rates for cabs and coaches as 
follows : 

Sec. 89.— The price, or rates of fare, to be asked or demanded 
by the owners or drivers of hackney-coaches or cabs, shall be 
as follows : 

One-horse '^Cabs," or " Hansoms." 1.— For conveying one or 
more persons any distance, sums not exceeding the following 
amounts : Fifty cents for the first mile or part thereof ; and 
each additional half-mile or part thereof, twenty-five cents. By 
distance, for "stops" of over five minutes, and not exceeding 
fifteen minutes, twenty-five cents. For longer stops, the rate 
will be twenty-five cents for every fifteen minutes or fraction 
thereof, if more than five minutes. For a brief stop, not exceed- 
ing five minutes in a single trip, there will be no charge. 

2.— For the use of a cab (or hansom) by the hour, with the 
privilege of going from place to place, and stopping as often and 
long as may be required, one dollar for the first hour or part 
thereof ; and for each succeeding half-hour or part thereof, fifty 
cents. 

Two-Horse "Coaches.'' 3. — For conveying one or more per- 
sons any distance, sums not exceeding the following amounts : 
One dollar for the first mile or part thereof ; and each additional 
half-mile or part thereof, forty cents. By distance, for stops of 
over five minutes, and not exceeding fifteen minutes, thirty-eight 
cents. For longer stops, the rate will be thirty-eight cents for 
every fifteen minutes. For a brief stop, not exceeding five 
minutes in a single trip, there will be no charge, 

4.— For the use of a coach by the hour, with privilege of going 
from place to place, and stopping as often and long as may be 
required, one dollar and fifty cents for the first hour or part 
thereof ; and for each succeeding half-hour or part thereof, 
seventy-five cents. 

5. — No cab or coach shall be driven the time rate at a pace less 
than five miles an hour. 

6.— From "line balls," one or two passengers, to any point 
south of 59th Street, two dollars ; each additional passenger, 
fifty cents ; north of 59th Street, each additional mile shall be 
charged for at a rate not to exceed fifty cents per mile. 

7. — Every owner or driver of any hackney-coach or cab shall 
carry on his coach or cab one piece of baggage, not to exceed 



How TO See New York. 35 

fifty poiiiuls ill weight, Avitliout extra eliarge ; but for any addi- 
tional baggage he may carry, he shall be entitled to extra com- 
pensation, at the rate of twenty-five cents per piece. 

Sect. 100.— There shall be fixtnl in each hackney-coach or cab, 
in such a maimer as can be conveniently read by any person 
riding in the same, a card containing the name of the owner of 
said carriage, the number of his license, and the whole of section 
89 of this article, printed in plain, legible characters, under a 
penalty of revocation of license for violation thereof, said sec- 
tion to be provided by the License Bureau in pamphlet or card 
form, and to be furnished free to the owner of such hackney- 
coach or cab. 

It shall be the duty of the driver of every such hackney-coach 
or cab, at the commencejiient of his employment, to present the 
passenger employing him with a printed card or slip containing, 
in case of cabs, sub- divisions 1 and 2, and in case of coaches, 
sub-divisions 3 and 4, of section 89 of this article. 

Sect. 10.5.— Any person or persons who shall violate any or 
either of the provisions of sections 98 to 106, both inclusive, of 
this article, shall be liable to a penalty of ten dollars. 

The law is more generally violated than observed, as persons 
foolishly fail to know or to demand their rights. Be thou not 
as other men, that is, if they lack sand. 



Political. 



New York city is accorded, by the last census, nine congres- 
sional districts, seven State senatorial districts, twenty-four 
State assembly districts and eight hundred and twelve polling 
places, where men can vote after proper registration. The next 
census will entitle the city to a greatly increased representation 
all around. 

If the State of New York ever concedes the same degree of 
justice to the city as it does to its most remote township or vil- 
lage, it will accord to the people residing within the limits of the 
city the right to Home Eule ; to establish a city legislative 
body composed of representatives from the various interests and 
sentiments within the city that shall have the right to decide and 
enforce all laws passed by a body of citizens that do not con- 
flict with the Constitution and general penal and other laws of 
the State at large. The right to raise monej' from its citizens for 
all purposes of city growth, improvement, dispensation and 
administration. The right to tear down the death- breeding and 
disease-spreading tenement house rookeries that disgrace civil- 
ization and murder humanity in its enforced poverty and in- 
creasing helplessness. The right to compel the erection of 
residences, shops, stores, offices, manufacturing establishments, 
prisons and hospitals in such places and according to such plans 
as will best serve justice, health and convenience. 

The present custom of hanging the local affairs of New York 
city fast to the politics of the State cind the general government 
prevents the growth and greatness of the city through a division 
of its political energies and resources. 



36 



New York City. 



Heaven is one of the two largest places, so far as area and 
population is concerned, we have any account of. 

New York is the largest city in the United States, and it has a 
very much mixed multitude, some of which is given to very 
much of mixing of drinks and forming of combines or mixes. It 
is also said to be a city of Micks, quite as well as a city of 
Yanks. 

Its population exceeds 1,700,000, and more coming. Owing 
to its horrible tenement house system, that is a disgrace to any 
people, from sixteen to thirty-eight families are crowded into 
less room than would be given to ten families, unless the idea is 
to have them die from diseases incidental to lack of air, water, 
ventilation and ozone. 

Ireland has more of a representation in New York than has 
any other country, not excepting the United States, and has 
armies of good friends here. Next come the Americans who are 
not of Irish parentage. Next the Germans, who are getting there 
as fast as possible and who are away up in the brewery business 
and other important enterprises. Italy is sending her swarthy 
.children into New York by the tens of thousands, so that here 
comes a new factor in politics and business. 

Polish Jews are also crowding into this city as fast as emigrant 
ships can bring them and they are about the dirtiest, filthiest, 
nastiest creatures who come here, but are cleaning up a little. If 
cleanliness is next to godliness, the Polish Jew is a long way 
from that locality or condition. 

Hungarians are rather liking New York City. The " heathen 
Chinee," are here by the thousands and they are, in pro 
portion to the population, the cleanest, most orderly, and of the 
least trouble to the police and police courts of any class of people 

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38 How TO See New York. 

in New York. So say the records. They will no more subsist 
on, or even eat what Polish Jews and Italians feed on than a 
Avhite man would devour a hog-pen and its contents. 

New York City, or the ground it covers, comprises 27,000 
acres, and was originally bought by the Dutch from the Indians 
for twenty- four guilders. Property has increased in value since 
the purchase was made. The city covers what was originally 
known as the Island of the Manhattans ; the Manhattan tribe 
of Indians who taught Avhite men how to make that succulent 
dish, succotash. The island is now a part of the city, which is 
growing beyond its old lines. While the city of London is less 
than one mile square, New York City is sixteen miles long and 
from one-half to four and one-half miles wide. 

It is like a hog, its back the highest in the middle, lengthwise 
the Island, so that sewer-age goes into the East River on one side, 
and North or Hudson River on the other side. 

The avenues extend lengthwise the Island. They are num- 
bered from First Avenue to Thirteenth Avenue, with others 
between, as Lexington Avenue is between Second and Third, 
and Madison Avenue is between Fourth and Fifth. 

Fifth Avenue is the centre. The ridge pole. The high line as 
it is the dividing line between the East side and the West side. 
The cross streets are from the Battery below the lower end of 
Broadway up to 222d Street, though there is more than a mile 
of the lower end of the city crossed by streets with names before 
they begin with numbers. 

New York is the chief seaport city of the United States, more 
than 35,000 vessels of iron, steel or wood, sail and steam, arriving 
and departing from this port each year. These vessels bring 
from 1,000 to 6,000 emigrants per day to this city, landing them 
all at Castle Garden. 

It is the foremost manufacturing city on the North American 
Continent, Philadelphia being second. By the census of 1880, 
the value of articles made in New York City, outside of repe- 
titions, was $472,926,433. 

There are now, in 1887, more than 12,000 manufacturing estab- 
lishments in New York City, about one-fourth of which are 
devoted to clothing, cigars, furniture, printing and beer. 

One thousand clothing establishments turnout over $85,000,- 
000 a year. The 580 printing establishments turn out about 



How TO See New York. 39 

!|3(),000,{)0() of work each year, some of wliich is very good, while 
some is slouchy. Nearly 800 cigar factories turn out $20,000,000 
worth of cigars yearly, while the 112') shops knock out over $10,- 
000,000 worth of furniture. More pianos are made in New York 
than in all other cities of the United States. 

It has a prominent plant known as the Board of Aldermen, 
which fits more men for State prison at Sing Sing than does any 
other ten cities on the Continent. They call them boodlers, and 
they show the carelessness and criminality of the respectable 
business element of the cit}^ that is content to vote, not for the 
blind goddess of justice, but for the partisan, political villain 
who so steadily pursues her. 

No city in the world has so many millionaires in proportion to 
population. No city in the world such an array of magnificent 
private and public buildings, or such facilities for rapid transit. 

As immigrants come in and old settlers move entirely away 
from their long-occupied localities, there are portions of the city 
now occupied entirely by colored people, by French, Italians, 
Germans, Hungarians, Bavarians, Polish Jews and Chinese; 
localities each as rank, peculiar and foreign as are the places 
their occupants came from ; localities in which are to be found 
any particular class or kind of vice, sin, crime, dissipation or 
disgustingness, the man physical, or the wreck mental, can 
ask to see or desire to lay hold of. 

East of Second Avenue, from Houston Street to Fourteenth 
Street, is a section known socially as Germany. Here you find 
German signs, customs, peculiarities and people, transplanted, 
but not yet Americanized. Speaking of beer— yes, they have it 
in Germany. 

The region about the Five Points is now occupied by Italians 
and is called Italy. 

There are about 10,000 Russians in New York City, and they 
are good citizens. 

China includes Mott Street, which is a veritable almond-eyed, 
under-shirt-on-the-outside locality, especially of a Sunday night, 
when the Chinese are out in their glory, chatting, smoking, visit- 
ing, etc. Irish women seem to hanker for Chinese husbands, 
this being about the only nationality that assimilates marital 
with the Chinese, who, they say, make the best of husbands. 

Africa is Thompson Street, north of Canal. 



40 How TO See New York. 

Judea is near the east end of Canal Street, taking in Ludlow 
Street and much of East Broadway. There are in New York 
exceeding 125.000 Hebrews, or Semitic people, w4th over thirty 
synagogues and twice as many smaller places of worship. They 
have nearly fifty charitable societies, and are such peaceable, 
law-abiding citizens that fewer than one-hundredth of the 
criminal or pauper population come from their number. Of the 
Hebrews in New York City fifty-three are millionaries. 

There are thirty-five police precincts and station houses, six 
police courts, 8,200 policemen and 75 patrol wagons in the city. 
A finer body of men than the New York police cannot be seen in 
any country. The official and detective force, forming the head 
of the Police Department, is one of the most efficient in the world. 
When the law shall be that no man who uses intoxicating 
drinks shall be retained on the police force, the occasional out- 
bursts of clubbing brutality arising from the inability of a 
drunken, over-excited officer to self-containment will be fewer 
and the police machinery will move easier, with greater force 
and by less friction. 

By the present ingenious system of alarms, calls and speeding 
away with patrol wagons drawn by trained horses of speed and 
endurance, a force from a station sweeps doAvn upon a disturber 
or into a row, ruction or riot, as at a fire, to the surprise and 
almost instantaneous arrest and taking to a station of the cause 
of the fracas. The old style of policemen, with a lantern and a 
shepherd's crook, cautiously peering along lest he run against 
somebody and disturb them, would be run over and mashed by 
the present lightning police force of New York. 

The headquarters of the New York police is at 300 Mulberry 
Street, where once the wild mulberries grew so plentifully. Here 
is one of the greatest museums of weapons, tools, appliances, 
etc., taken from thieves, burglars and murderers, including the 
Rogue's Gallery of pictures of crooks and criminals, the world 
ever contained . 

Take a day to visit Police Headquarters and get a few good 
points to take home with you, that you may incite thought and 
spread the light of progress further and further, as small cities 
are thus made to keep up with the larger ones, and villages 
taught to become cities. 

Many a good thing is lost by not asking for it, and many good 



How TO See Neav York. 41 

things are lost or not obtained because no one goes for tlieni. 
When you are contemplating going somewhere and wish to 
ascertain distance in order to estimate time, you may remember 
tliat from the Battery to City Hall is three-fourths of a mile ; 
to Canal Street, 1 1-4 mile ; to Fourth Street, 2 miles ; to Union 
Square, 2 1-2 miles ; to Madison Square, 3 miles. Above Third 
Street the blocks between the streets are twenty to a mile, and 
the blocks between the avenues, as you go East and West, are 
seven to a mile. 



New York as a Winter Resort. 



While New York is without doubt the most attractive long- 
run summer resort, being so close to the seashore and the 
places where the sea breeze makes the nights deliciously, in- 
vigoratingly cool, it is the greatest and most attractive winter 
resort in the United States. 

About the first of October the business men and their families, 
who have been enjoying their summer outing, have returned to 
the city, are coming in by the thousands and tens of thousands, 
ready for business, study, pleasure, excitement and ornament- 
ing the winter. 

From the middle of November to the beginning of the Lenten 
season New York is decidedly alive. The hotels are crowded, or 
more than well filled. The homes of New Yorkers, who are 
prominent in the social, business, political, artistic and amuse 
ment world, are filled with residents and friends, many of whom 
are invited guests from England, Ireland, France, Russia, Ger- 
many, Spain, Italy and other countries, all bent on having a 
pleasant time and lots of it. 

Theatres, lectures, concerts, musicales and other entertain- 
ments at private residences all combine to turn the early night 
into day, so that old and young, saint and sinner, student and 
spendthrift, resident business men and visitors can say in truth 
that they "wont go home till morning," or till midnight has 
counted itself in. 

The electric light system so firmly and extensively planted in 
New York, actually turns the business streets, the public squares, 
the leading thorougfares, the ball rooms, concert halls, theatres, 
churches and parlors into day, long after day has passed and 
night has come, astonished to be thus interfered with. 

Business by day and amusement by night is the order of exer- 
cises in the winter. The opera and the dinner table each call 
forth the resources of fashion. The average business man par- 

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How TO See New York. 43 

takes of breakfast from (Mght till ten o'clock. He leaves his 
office at three to four o'clock. He rides in Central Park, or on 
some of the really magnificent drives in the city between Fifty- 
ninth Street and Westchester County, accompanied by his wife, 
SM^eetheart, friends or family generally. 

Then comes a five or six o'clock dinner, which is over by seven 
o'clock, in time for the entertainments that usually commence 
at eight and usually end at eleven. 

So it is that in the winter one sees New York in a social, scien- 
tific, educational, business or amusement way at its best. This 
is the season that the best of artistic talent from all parts of the 
world is here to be found. 

A Avinter season in New York is now considered as faster, 
richer, gayer and in every way more fascinating and enjoyable 
than a season in London, Paris, Madrid, Berlin, St. Petersburg 
or any other city of the world. Americans go to England and 
visit Switzerland, Ital}^ Germany and Russia in the summer to 
see the country, while the social, the business, the travel ele- 
ment comes to New York in the fall to remain the winter. 

The home comforts, more and more to be found in the homes 
and hotels of New York, are so far in advance of the comforts, 
luxuries and conveniences to be found in Florida and all other 
Southern-localities once popular as winter resorts, is adding ma- 
terially to the winter population of New York 

The lines of rapid transit, elevated railways in New York city, 
up out of the dirt, dust, mud, snow and discomforts of ordinary 
winter travel, together with the palatial stores and shopping 
marts, make this city as easy to get around in during the winter 
as at any other season of the year. 

The sea-side resorts, where New Yorkers rush to in the sum- 
mer for rest, relaxation and renewal of their business vigor, are 
deserted in the winter, while the city itself is a blaze of light and 
an Aurora Borealis of artistic and literary life. 

Each year adds to the reputation of New York City as a winter 
resort, and very much of the increasing reputation is due to the 
liberal, enterprising bankers, brokers and business men who are 
identified with the leading clubs and club life of the great city. 

And who dare prophecy what New York will be in summer 
and in winter half a century hence ? 



If You Go b}^ Water. 



He was a wise old granger who remarked that all very large 
cities were very near the water. 

New York is as near water as a eity can be that occupies an 
island and covers it completely. 

While millions of people can get into New York by water, 
other millions can thus leave the city, as tens of thousands each 
year go abroad for business, health, pleasure — or to escape the 
law or entailment of consequences following some left-handed 
act. 

All the principal transatlantic steamships go from the port of 
New York, while thousands of sail and steam craft go coastwise 
up and down the water line of our common country. 

If you wish, or have occasion to make an ocean voyage, here 
is the way to start : 

FOR EUROPE. 

Anchor Line. — New York to Glasgow. Saturdays. From 
Pier 41, N. R., foot of Leroy Street. Fares, first cabin, $50 to 
$60. Second cabin, $30. Henderson Bros., Agents, No. 7 Bowl- 
ing Green. 

Anchor Line. — New York to Liverpool. Steamer "City of 
Rome." Every fourth Wednesday. Pier 43 N. R. Fares, first 
cabin, $60 to $100. Henderson Bros., Agents, No. 7 Bowling 
Green. 

Baltic Line. — New York to Copenhagen and Stettin. Monthly. 
Pier foot of First Street, Hoboken. Fares, first cabin, $50. Steer- 
age at low rates. C. B. Richard & Co. , Agents, 61 Broadway. 

Cunard Line. — New York to Liverpool. Wednesday. Pier 40 
(new) N. R. , foot of Clarkson Street. Fares, first cabin, $60 to 
$125. Vernon H. Brown & Co.. Agents, No. 4 Bowling Green. 

French Line. — New York to Havre. Saturdays. Pier 42 

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How TO See New York. 45 

(new) N. R., foot of Morton Street. Fares, first cabin, $80, $100 
and $120; second cabin, $60. L. de Bebian & Co., Agents, No. 3 
Bowling Green. 

Giu'on Line. — New York to Liverpool. Tuesdays. Pier 38 
(new) N. R., foot of King Street. Fares, first cabin, $60, $80 to 
$100; second cabin, $30 to $35. A. M. Underbill v*fc Co., Agents, 
No. 35 Broadway. 

Hamburg- American. — New York to Hamburg. Every Thurs- 
day and Saturdays. Pier foot of First Street, Hoboken. Fares, 
first cabin, $50, $60 and $75. Steerage at low rates. C. B. Richard 
&Co., Agents, No. 61 Broadway. 

Inman Line. — New York to Liverpool. Saturdays. Foot of 
Grand Street, Jersey City. Fares, first cabin, $50, $60, $80 and 
$100. Peter Wright & Sons, General Agents, Washington 
Building, No. 1 Broadway. 

National Line. — New York to Liverj^ool. Saturdays. Pier 39 
(new) N. R. , foot of Houston Street. Fares, first cabin, $35 
upwards. 

National Line. — New York to London. Pier 39 (new) N. R., 
foot of Houston Street. Fares, first cabin, $35 upwards. F. W. 
J. Hurst, 27 State St. ♦ 

Netherlands American Steam Navigation Company. — From 
New York to Rotterdam and Amsterdam. Saturdays. Pier foot 
of York Street, Jersey City. Fares, first cabin, $42, $45 and $50; 
second cabin, $32. Netherland American Steam Navigation 
Company, 39 Broadway. 

North- German Lloyd. ~-^qw York to Bremen. Wednesdays 
and Saturdays. Pier foot of Second Street, Hoboken. Fares, 
first cabin, $80 to $175 , second cabin, $55 and $60. Oelrichs & 
Co., Agents, No. 2 Bowling Green. 

Red Star Line. — From New York to Antwerp and Paris. 
Wednesdays, after October 5th, Saturdays. Pier foot of Sussex 
Street, Jersey City, adjoining Pennsylvania R. R. depot. Fares, 
first cabin, $60 to $75; second cabin, $40. Peter Wright & Sons, 
General Agents, No. 55 Broadway. 

State Line.—^ew York to Glasgow. Thursdays. Pier foot 
of Canal Street, N. R. Fares, first cabin, $35 to $40. Austin 
Baldwin & Co., Agents, No. 53 Broadway. 

White Star Line. — New York to Liverpool. Wednesdays 
Pier 45 (new) N. R., foot of West 10th Street. Fares, first cabin. 



46 Mow TO See New York. 

$60, |S() to )i^l(»0 ; s(M'oii(l cabin, $r,r>. J. Bnice Tsmay, Agent, No. 
41 Broadway. 

FOR BERMUDA AND WEST INDIES. 
Quebec Steamship Company.— 'New York to Bermuda. Thurs- 
days. Pier 47 (new), N. R. Fares, first cabin, $30; excursion, 
$50; second cabin, $20; excursion, $33.50. A. E. Outerbridge & 
Co., Agents, No. 51 Broadway. 

FOR CUBA AND MEXICO. 
Neiv Yo7^k, Havana and Mexican Mail Steaiuship Line. — New 
York to Havana, Vera Cruz and Mexican ports. Thursdays, 3 
p. M. Pier 3, N. R. l^'ares to Havana, first cabin, $50; to Vera 
Cruz, Mexico, first cabin, $80. F. Alexandre & Sons, Agents, 
No. 31 Broadway. 

FOR CUBA AND NASSAU. 

Neiv York and Cuba Stearnship Compafty. — New York to 
Havana. Saturdays, 3 p. m. Pier 16, E. R. Fares, to Havana, 
$50; to Santiago and Cienfuegos, via Southside Line, $60. 

Neiv York and Cuba Steamship Company. — New to Nassau. 
Thursdays, 3 P. M. Pier»16, E. R. Fares, to Nassau, excursion, 
$50; to Porto Rico, San Domingo, $75. James E. Ward & Co., 
Agents, No. 113 Wall Street. 

TO HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, AND ST. JOHN'S, NEW- 
FOUNDLAND. 
Red Cross Line. — Fares, first cabin, including state-room berth 
and excellent table, Halifax, $16 ; St. John s, $34; second cabin, 
Halifax, $9 ; St. John's, $18. Bowring & Archibald, Agents, 18 
Broadway. 

FOR WEST INDIES AND SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA. 

Atlas Lijie. — New York to Kingston, Jamaica. Every 14 
days. Pier 55, N. R. Fares, first cabin, $50; second cabin, $35. 
Pim, Forwood & Co., Agents, No. 22 State Street. 

Clyde's West Lidia Steamship Lines. — For Turk's Island, Cape 
Haytien, Puerto-Plata, Samana and St. Domingo City. Pier 29, 
East River, For freight or passage apply to the general agents, 
Wm. P. Clyde i& Co., 35 Broadway. 

FOR ST. THOMAS, SOUTH AMERICA, ETC. 
United States and Brazil Mail Steaiuship Conijjauy. — New 



How T) See New York. 47 

York to St. Thomas, Barbados, Para, Maranhani, Pernambuco, 
Bahia and Rio de Janeiro. Monthly. Roberts' Stores, Brooklyn. 
Fares, first cabin, to St. Thomas, $t;o ; to Rio de Janeiro, $160. 
Paul F. Gerhard & Co., Agents, No. 84 Broad Street. 

Red ''D'' Line. — For Venezuela and Curacoa. Sailing from 
Pier 36, East River, every twelve days. Pares, $Sf) and $75 ; 
round trip, $144 and $135. Boulton, Bliss & Dallett, 71 Wall 
Street. 

Coastwise Steamships. — The principal coastwise steamship 
lines sailing from the port of New York are : 

Cromwell Line. — New York to New Orleans, La. Saturdays, 3 
P. M. Pier 9, N. R. Fares, cabin, $35 ; steerage, $20. S. H. Sea- 
man, Agent, Pier 9, North River. 

Mallory Line. — New York to Jacksonville and Fernandina, 
Fla. Fridays, 3 p. m. Pier 21, E. R. Fares, to Fernandina, 
first cabin, $20; to Jacksonville, $21.50. 

Mallory Line. — New York to Galveston. Wednesdays and 
Saturdays, 3 p. m. Key West. Saturdays only, 3 p. m. Pier 20, 
E. R. Fares, to Galveston, Tex., $50 ; to Key West, Fla., $40. 
C. H. Mallory &.Co., Agents, Pier 21, East River. 

New York^ Charleston and Florida Steamship Company. — New 
York to Charleston, S. C, Jacksonville and Fernandina, Fla. 
Tuesdays aud Fridays, 3 p. m. Pier 29, E. R. , foot Roosevelt 
Street. T. G. Eger, Traffic Manager, 35 Broadway. Wm. P. 
Clyde & Co., General Agents, 35 Broadway. 

Ocean Steamship Company of Savannah. — New York to 
Savannah. Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 3 p. m. Pier 
27, N. R., foot Park Place. Fares, first cabin, $20; excursion, 
$32. H. Yonge, Agent, Pier 27, N. R. W. H. Rhett, General 
Agent, No. 317 Broadway. 

Old Dominion Line. — New York to Norfolk, Va. Tuesdays, 
Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, 3 p. m. Pier 26 (new), 
N. R., foot of Beach Street. Fares, to Norfolk, Va., $8 ; excur- 
sion, $13. 

Old Dominion Line. — New York to Richmond, Va. Tuesdays, 
Thursdays and Saturdays, 3 p. m. Pier 26, N. R. Fares, to Rich- 
mond, $9; excursion, $14. Old Dominion Steamship Company, 
Agents, No. 235 West Street. 

River and Sound Steamboats. — Strangers coming into New 
York Harbor for the first time are amazed at the River and 



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Sound steamers. Nearly all are side-wheelers, usually painted 
white, and many are of great size and speed. The largest is the 
famous iron steamer "Pilgrim" of the Fall Kiver Line, running 
between New York and Newport and Fall River, forming a line 
to Boston. This immense vessel is 400 feet long, 88 feet wide, 
and 60 feet from the top of the upper deck to the water line. She 
has sleeping accommodations for 1,200 passengers. Her speed is 
twenty miles an hour. 

For those who are not good sailors, and are troubled with sea- 
sickness, the " inside route " to Boston, via the Stonington Line, 
is always popular. It is entirely within the limits of Long 
Island Sound, and, except in cases of extreme weather, is usually 
a very quiet, easy, restful trip. The speed, safety and beauty of 
the steamers, the great care taken of all who travel, and espec- 
ially women and children, make it essentially the line of comfort 
and enjoyment. 

LOND ISLAND SOUND STEAMERS. 



Name of Line. 



Fall River Line. 
Stonington Line. 
Norwich Line. 
Hartford Line. 
New Haven Line. 
Bridgeport Line. 



New York to- 



Boston 

Boston 

Boston 

Hartford 

New Haven. 

Bridgeport. 



Start from Foot of- 



Murray St., N. R. 
Spring St., N. R. 
Canal St., N. R. 
Peck Slip, E. R. 
Peck Slip, E. R. 
Catherine St., E.R. 



Elevated Station and Line 
Nearest. 



Park Place, 6th Avenue. 
Desbrosses St., 9th Avenue. 
Desbrosses St., 9th Avenue- 
Fulton St., 3d Avenue. 
Fulton St., .3d Avenue. 
Chatham Square, 3d Avenue- 



HUDSON RIVER STEAMERS. 



Name OF Line- 



People's Line. 
Citizens' Line. 

Day Line. 



New York to- 



Albany. 

Albany and 
Troy. 

Albany and in- 
ter- points- 



Start from Foot of- 



Canal St., N. R. 
Christopher St. 

N- R. 
Vestry St., N.R. 



Elevated Station and Line 
Nearest. 



Desbrosses St-, 9th Avenue. 
8th St-, 6th Ave., and street 

cars. 
Desbrosses St., 9th Avenue. 



As a general thing the living in these large steamers is of the 
best. By the use of ice stored in large rooms or refrigerators, 
milk, etc. , is kept frozen and sweet ; meats, vegetables, fruits, 
etc., are kept at any required temperature, so that the cabin 



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passenger on a first-class ocean steamer fares better each day of 
his voyage than do those wlio board at ordinary first -class 
hotels in the large villages and small cities, and as well as do 
those who live in the best hotels in large cities, where guests 
expect and landlords provide the best of everything in abun- 
dance. 

Before starting for a foreign country it is well to have some 
friend, or the regular agent of the line you go by, select a state- 
room for you against a day and hoiir when you sail. Also to 
exchange your legal tender money of this country for whatever 
may be legal tender money of the country you are to visit, as 
American money, even if pure gold, is not money in any other 
country, though it can be disposed of at a bank or money ex- 
change office in other countries at the price that people there will 
give for it. 

Even in England we have been unable to settle our bill at. a 
hotel or to buy railway tickets with American gold coins. 
Exactly as in this country ' ' foreign" money is not taken, simply 
bceause it is not so convenient as tlie money of our own country, 
and if taken, is taken only after more or less figuring as to its 
value in the country it is from. The people of any country 
generally like their own the best, as they are used to it. 

Emigrants coming to this country bring the money of their 
fatherland with them, and sell it to brokers, who are permitted 
to buy and sell money at Castle Garden, and who fleece the poor 
emigrants out of one to three per cent, over the price charged by 
outside brokers. To lose say three dollars on a hundred, thirty 
dollars on a thousand cuts into a person's finances considerably. 

In England, France, Germany, etc., that is, in the principal 
cities, greenbacks ai»e taken at the same price as American gold 
coins by those who exchange money, simply because greenbacks 
are legal tender in the country where issued, and where they are 
returned from time to time as accumulated. But the best way 
is to supply yourself with that which is laivful money or legal 
tender, in the country you are to visit, before leaving New York, 
as all foreign money is worth less here than at its home, as 
American money is worth less in other countries than in 
its own. 



To Other Than Merchants. 



That persons must live and will live as well and as long as pos- 
sible, is a fact none can deny. 

The dog that hunts for a bone and the beggar that hunts for a 
crust are partners in misery, yet they live by their wits. 

The gamin in the street, the relative hunter, the dead-beat, the 
free-lunch nuisance, the bilk and the boarding-house bassoo, 
each manage to live, chiefly by management. The higher line 
of blood-suckers, such as those who engineered the Grant and 
Ward swindles ; the Ives dead-fall, and all that class, live by 
their wits and on the credulitj^ of plodders, male and female.^ 

The "woods of a great city'' are full of swindlers Avho hang 
around as do some candidates at conventions, hoping that luck 
may open a way for its dupes to catch on, hold fast and reach in. 

On coming to New York you will find men who look for the 
verdure in your eyes, and set in to form your acquaintance. 
Persons who will offer to show you anything, from a place to 
drink, to eat, to sleep or to bathe. They expect you to furnish 
them with food, drink and lodging while they hang on, and if 
you go with them to bathe, look out that they do not change 
clothes with you and disappear, at least with the contents of 
your pocket. 

You have heard of green goods, which mean goods for 
greenies. Of men who send circulars broadcast through the 
mails, offering to sell counterfeit money, or a special lot of im- 
pressions from plates on which bank-notes, bonds, etc., have 
been printed; offering to supply you with enough counterfeit 
money for a song, to salt and swindle all your neighbors — that is, 
if you are willing to rob, steal and plunder. 

Those who print bank-notes and bonds do not leave them 
around loose, as a man who comes home tight scatters his ward- 
robe as he tries to undress. There is but little of counterfeit 
money afloat or made. 

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But men offer to sell anythijiK- 'I'lx'V <'V('ii send a little good 
money in a letter as a sample, telling yon confidentially that it 
is counterfeit, and that for a few hundred dollars they will send 
you bundles and boxes of the counterfeit. They thus obtain 
money — and they keep it. The patient jackass at the other end 
of the line waits, and waits, and waits, and writes, but gets no 
returns. Knowing that he is himself dishonest and that his ob- 
ject was to arrange to swindle his neighbors, he keeps still, real- 
izing that a fool and his money are soon parted, as he comes to 
the city to be met, waylaid and relieved of his shekels. He is slylj^ 
given a package and told to skip quickly and not open it till he 
reaches the woods, a barn, an old cellar or a hay mow on the 
banks of goose creek. 

He hies him to his home, fearing arrest all the way, opens his 
package to find it to contain slips of old newspapers cut to size 
of bank bills, and then realizes that the country thief or would-be 
swindler has been poured in and chvirned by his sharper brother, 
who, educated in the sin, crime and get-it-as-best-you-can 
trickery of a large city, is more than a match for the incipient 
rascal in the rural districts. 

Steer clear of all persons you do not know. Beware of the 
ones who rush up to claim an acquaintance, and who get you to 
tell them all about yourself, and who thus, with this information 
pumped out of the greenhorn, bid him good day, meet a partner 
in the game, give him all the points obtained, and let him come 
at you for keeps. 

When you want anything, know where to go for it. Deal only 
with persons who have regular, respectable places of business. 
There are thousands of respectable, honest, genial, accommo- 
dating business men in New York, any of whom will gladly give 
give you the information you desire. 

There are policemen who take pleasure in directing you on 
your way, so you can reach the place you seek at the shortest 
distance. 

The people of the city of New York, the business element, is 
ever anxious to provide all that can be required for the pleasure, 
interest and protection of strangers. If you are robbed, it is not 
then- fault. but vours. 



Men of Brains, as Bulls and Bears, 



Skip along down Broadway, toward the Battery from City 
Hall Square and the Postoffice, till you come to Trinity Church, 
standing there in one corner of old Trinity churchyard, as prim 
and stately as an old maid with a Mother Hubbard at a picnic. 
Directly in front of the Trinity is Wall Street. A narrow street, 
but a very deep one. It is lined with generally fine buildings, 
some of which are beauties and as solid as wealth and art can 
make them. The second street you come to on Wall, after you 
leave Broadway, on the right-hand side as you go down toward 
East River, is Broad Street, and a fine, broad street it is. A 
few doors from Wall Street is the world-renowned New York 
Stock Exchange, a picture of which is on the following page. 

It is to the speculating and financial world what the Vatican 
is to the city of Eome, what the Pope is to the Catholic 
Church, or what a President is to an administration — a decided 
boss. Not so intended, but so become. 

The city of New York is the financial centre of the United 
States, and a competitor with London in its strides for the 
future. It has more men of brains, courage, vim, vigor, vigil- 
ance, vinegar, gall, soul, acumen and honor therein than has 
any other city or location in this country. Men who venture 
much, make much, risk much, make large winnings, or 
large losings, but who never whine any more than does 
a bull dog when another dog has it by the throat. Men, of 
brains who study the art of finance -, who know more of the 
condition of the country at large than does the Congress of the 
United States, as they are far more alert in all matters affecting 
the rise and fall of official securities than are members of Con- 
gress who work for a salary, on the aft'airs of the country. 

This opera de buff and bluff, opened in 1792, when twenty-five 
brokers, comprising the cream of the brokerage or exchange 

52 




N£W YORr. STOCK EXCHAKGE. 



-^^ BUSINESS ESTABLISHED 1849. <)^ 
THE 

Bradstrlet J^lrcantillJ^gency 



CAPITAL AND SURPLUS EXCEED $1,400,000. 
Executive Offices, - 279, 281 ana 283 Broadway, N. V. 



incorporated in 1876, and has since been under its present 
successful management. During that time its business has 
quadrupled, while its facilities have proportionately increased. 

No expense is considered too great in procuring and applying 
to the conduct of the business all possible improvements. With its 
present system for obtaining and promulgating information, this 
Agency is justly regarded by its patrons as 

Authority on all Matters Affecting Commercial Credit. 

Its ramifications are greater and its business larger than any 
similar organization in the world conducted in one interest and 
under one management. 

You are respectfully invited to investigate, and if in need of an 
agency, to test its ability to serve you. 

CHARLES F. CLARK, 

I'residen/. 



Hdw to Skk Nkw York. 5:1' 

business of this city, grew tired of meeting under an old button- 
wood tree that grew and cast its shadows in Wall Street, oppo 
site present number G!), drew up an agreement, that all signed, 
to the effect that they would maintain rates of commission or 
exchange ; that they would charge the uniform rate of one 
quarter of one per cent, on the specie value of such notes, bonds 
and other securities as they bought or sold for other parties, and 
that they would undertake no sale or purchase of less than a 
.^500 order— from that up to millions. To this solemn agreement 
twenty-five brokers on the 17th of May, 1792. signed their names 
as follows : 

Leonard Bleeker, Sutton A. Hardy, 

Samuel Marsh, J. H. Hardenbrook, 

Andrew D. Barday, John Ferren, 

John Henry, Gulian McEvers, 

Benj. Winthrop, John Bush, 

Isaac M. Lomez, A. Barnewall, 

G. N. Bleecker, Alex. Luntz, 

Chas. A. McEvers, Jr. , Benj. Seixas, 

Robinson Hartshorne, Amos Beebe, 

David Reedy, Eph'm Hart, 

Hugh Smith, Aug. A. Lawrence, 

Bernard Haas, Peter Infact. 

At this time monetarj^ ideas were crude. Our Government 
had not got onto the legal tender right. The Treasury Depart- 
ment of the United States was a very sick kitten when the 
brokers and money lenders of New York failed to buy the notes 
and bonds that it offered for sale. 

The quaint old shinplasters of those times, as issued by the 
United States, were as artistic as a last year s porous plaster. 
They never were money, but merely a promise that if, and if, 
and if circumstances permitted, the Government at some 
time in the future would paj^ a certain number of silver- 
coins of Spain or England for the redemption of the shin- 
neys. Here is a fac simile of one of the promises made by 
the fathers, wliich promises were kept out of doors till they 



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HoAv TO See New York. 




became weak in the back, worn to their uppers and as 
bald-headed as Daniel was when he was being lionized. 

The buying and 
celling of these 
M promises to pay- 
was a great 
) u s i n e s s in 
those days. 
Those who had 
specie, bought 
Government 
promises, and 
those who grew 
tired of holding 
the promises 
sold them for 
specie. 

In 1812 the 
Go V e r n m e n t 
issued $16,000,000 in Treasury notes, and put loans to the 
amount of $109,000,000 on the market, chiefly through the New 
York brokers, who found the New York Stock Exchange, where 
public stock or government promises were sold for foreign coins 
that had metallic value, and passed as monefa, or money, a 
place to buy or sell. 

These securities bobbed up and down as does a kite that is 
heavy at the beak and light at the tail wobble in a jerky breeze, 
as may be learned from the historical fact, that in 1814 United 
States six per cent, bonds, or promises to pay money at six 
per cent, interest, sold in New York City at the Stock Exchange 
for fifty cents on the dollar in specie, and for seventy cents on 
the dollar when paid for in currencj^ issued by banking corpora- 
tions in New York. 

In 1816 New York State had 208 banks of issue and for deposit, 
with a claimed capital of $82,000,000. This was considered a big 
figure at that time, and so it was. But now, when almost any 
party of half a dozen or so of the leading brokers, dining at a 
first-class restaurant, can shake $82,000,000 out of " their inside 
pockets,'' the evidence is that times and conditions are jumping 
ahead mighty fast, 



How TO See New York. 56 

One day in 1817 the New York Stock Exchange was struck in 
the small of the back by an idea that sprouted in Philadelphia, 
in connection with finances and how to Avork in the tints properly, 
and it sent a spy over by stage to pick up a pointer. He did it 
to such good advantage that, Avhile he left the city of Brotherly 
Love all there as he found it, he captured the idea, or advance 
thought, and in the shape of a copy of the Philadelphia plan, 
submitted it to the stock dealers of New York, who went for it 
as Jacob went for the daughters of Laban. And they captured 
it and formed a set of governing by-laws therefrom, adopted 
them and cried " Ha! ha!" 

Three years after, the plan working so well, on the 21st of 
February, 1820, the code of procedure was revised, several of 
the heaviest capitalists in the city joined in, and from that hour 
the New York Stock Exchange dates its extended and perfected 
foundations that brains, push, energy and vigor of intellect have 
built upon to such Av^onderful advantage to all concerned, count- 
ing as a combination. During the first quarter of a century of 
its existence $100 could buy a membership in the Exchange if 
the man back of the money was all right. 

Now it costs a convert thirty thousand dollars to get into this 
church or synagogue that deals in the coins, etc.. bearing the 
legend : "In God we Trust."" 

To such good purport did the New York Stock Exchange ad- 
vertise its intentions and operations that whoever had money to 
invest lugged it into the offices of its members, and whoever 
wanted money to engage in extensive enterprises that time kept 
forming right along, as it is doing now and will do forever, came 
to the offices of these men and were yoked or harnessed to the 
burdens they bore, as they entered the lists that men of courage 
enter and bring deserved profit therefrom. 

Thus begun the plan of bringing men with money to a center 
where could be met men with ideas, for it is a fact that ideas 
are often worth millions of dollars within seven seconds after 
they are born, as exemplified by the success that has followed 
the advance movements of many of the eminent thinkers and 
courageous brokers, bankers and investors who dared to attempt 
and to whom was given consequent power to perform. 

The limit of membership is eleven hundred. All new names 
added to the list are replacements of those who have died, or 



56 How TO See New York. 

those who, for reason, wish to retire and who sell their seats, or 
rather membership. At times a dishonest j^erson is ruled out of 
the Exchange, so that he cannot longer associate with the mem- 
bers there in good standing, but he has the right to sell his seat, or 
membership, for what it will bring. The seats are at a premium, 
so that as high as $35,000 cash have been paid for member- 
ship, provilig the position to be valuable as a property, though 
not tangible enough to be assessed for general taxation. One 
thousand dollars must be paid into the treasury of the New 
York Stock Exchange for every transfer of a membership, and 
fifty dollars annual dues. On the death of a member $10,000 in 
cash is paid to his heirs. 

Actual seats in the Exchange are permitted only to a few, on 
very strict examination as to character, standing, solvency, etc. 
No person can become a member unless the nominator and sec- 
onders each would be willing to cash an uncertified check for 
the applicant to the amount of $20,000. 

If there ever was an organization that strove to defend and 
forefend individual honesty, the New York Stock Exchange is 
that organization. It is social and financial destruction for a 
member to fail in his word, provided there is proven dishonesty. 
He can be as sharp, shrewd, reticent or loquacious as he pleases ; 
can undertake big contracts or small ones, as he has the sand 
and disposition, but he must not let it be proven that Ananias 
and Saphira were his regular parents or he is shot up the flue in 
short order. 

Such has been the correct financial standing of its members 
that up to the latest official report, 1885, only three members had 
been expelled. Bad men may be kept in religious society, etc., 
but there is no home or hand of welcome for them in the mem- 
bership of the New York Stock Exchange. A man may dig up 
more potatoes than he can sell ; may mistake the market and go 
down in a crash, and still be honest. If he acts honorable, 
gives up what he thinks fair to all, he is sponged off and can 
enter the ring again, providing he holds his membership. That 
is, an error of judgment is not death and damnation, as it is 
in some other societies or congregations. 

Transactions involving millions, yes, hundreds of millions of 
dollars a day in a rushing season, are carried on with a word, a 
wink, a nod, a brief memoranda on a business card, with no 



How TO See New York. .*»7 

contracts or iron-bound agrcc^nients, and the honor of the men 
who thus deal or operate, so called, is such that disputes are of 
very rare occurrence. 

Were the politicians of either party one quarter so deter- 
mined to keej) their promises made previous to election as men 
of the New York Stock Exchange are anxious to keep theirs, no 
matter at what sacrifice of money, it would be almost impossible 
to control an administration oftener than twice in a centur3^ 

The old and unnecessary plan of the Government hiring money 
when it had and has the power to create and issue legal tender 
for all debt-paying purposes, made the season of the late war a 
double-breasted picnic for the New York Stock Exchange and 
its members, who at first loaned money, or placed loans for 
others, to the Government, and after that the conversion of 
gold into greenbacks that people were educated to sell cheaply 
and these in turn into United States bonds. If any broker or 
banker lost money by this four years' military picnic his name 
and postoffice address is not known. 

An idea of the fatness of things in this line may be had from 
the fact that from January 1, 1880, to December 31, 1886, there 
were sold at the New York Stock Exchange, United States bonds 
to the amount of $178,227,650 ; of railway shares a total of 624,- 
426,362, say $100 each, par value, amounting to the almost in- 
conceivable total of sixty-two billions, four hundred forty-fico 
millions, six hundred and thirty-six thousand tivo hundred dol- 
lars ; of State and railroad bonds $3,417,183,018. 

Add these three staples of Stock Exchange sale business 
together, and the footing of seven years' business, from 1880 to 
1886 inclusive, is $70,038,046,868. 

Sevent}^ billions of money, or sales, in seven years, saying 
nothing of the odd millions, is quite a lot of cash to handle on a 
commission of say one-fourth of one per cent. 

Do you wonder that the members of the New Y^'ork Stock Ex- 
change, during the hoars ten to three, are about as busy and 
animated as ever was a bald-headed deacon at an apple cut in the 
country, when grabbing for the handsomest girl in the room to 
be had for the wind-up dance— if he can catch on before another 
deacon gets her. 

Flies don't have nmch chance to sleep on the eyelids of a mem- 



58 How TO See New York. 

ber of the Exchange when he is in the pit or on the hay mow 
shouting that he will give or take. 

In the above securities offered and sold mention is not made of 
other securities offered by other corporations or individuals, 
directly or through brokers here assembled, not for fun, but for 
business. 

The principal sales here are of bonds, or sliced mortgages, 
in which several persons can have an interest, and stocks, or 
duly issued certificates of shares of various railway and other 
enterprises in which members of the Stock Exchange become 
interested. 

No sale of bonds or shares are here made except the com- 
mittee of the Exchange see fit to recommend them for disposal, 
and the fees are paid. 

The stocks and bonds here offered, and which are the most 
active, are not always those of the greatest value, as it very 
often occurs that the most valuable are held for private pur- 
poses, as too valuable to be smirched by the results of fights 
made for and against them. 

An idea of the enormous amount of business here done during a 
year can be had from the fact that some days over 700,000 shares 
of stock, par value $100 per share, are here sold for what they 
can be made to fetch, and that on some days the sales have ex- 
ceeded one million shares — over one hundred millions of dollars 
in a day. It is quite safe to say that during all the time the 
Saviour and his twelve apostles were on earth they never ex- 
ceeded this run, as the result of one day's business. 

The broker who sells, gets his commission. 

The broker who buys, gets his commission. 

The owner of the security sold, has the difference. 

Buying for an expected rise in value is termed going " long." 

Selling for an expected decline is going "short." 

If a man buys for a rise and those who can run a stock 
down prevent a rise, the man who bought for the rise is apt to 
be hurt. 

The same if he gets on the other end of the teeter board. 

Those who unite to squeeze the life out of stocks by saying all 
they can against a property, and thus causing people to lose faith 
in it to a greater or less extent, are called Bears. They beai' 
down as hard as they can. 



How TO See New York. 59 

Those who favor and exalt the reputation of what is offered, 
are called Bulls. They toss things up. 

The person who berates a neighbor and tells others that he is 
a bad lot. that his wife is a sloven and his children warty, is a 
bear. 

The one Avho speaks Avell of others and seeks to maintain 
them in general estimation is a bull. That is, in Wall Street 
circles. 

AVhat is commonly called gambling in stocks consists in buy- 
ing and selling what you do not own ; that is, Mr. A agrees to 
sell to Mr. B, at any time within thirty, sixty or ninety days 
hence, say ten thousand shares of the A. A. B. B. &; C. C. Rail- 
way, say at ninety cents on the dollar, as the same may be called 
for. If the yield of crops, increase of business, etc., sends the 
shares or stock up from ninety cents to any higher figure, Mr. A 
calls for the shares. Mr. B does not have them. Therefore he 
pays Mr. A the difference. If the shares go to ninety-five, the ad- 
vance from ninety is $5 a share, which, on 10,000. shares, makes 
$50,000 that Mr. A makes by buying at ninety, as to be had on 
call and selling at the advance. If Mr. A agrees to give ninety 
and the bears have hammered the credit and estimated value of 
the shares down to say 80, then Mr. B calls for the stock to de- 
liver to his customer, and if it is not forthcoming he takes the 
difference, say $100,000, on the transaction, less the commission 
that goes to the broker, w^ho,as a member of the Stock Exchange 
makes the sale for those who buy and sell, and who put up ten 
per cent. " margin" in cash, or what is taken as cash, to cover 
fluctuations while the cuckoo is on the nest. This is not a Wall 
Street term, but it appears to get there. 

Beside the New York Stock Exchange, for those who deal in 
bonds and stocks duly entered, listed and contended for and 
against, there is the Produce Exchange, whose magnific^ent 
building is at the lower end of Broadway ; the Cotton Exchange: 
the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Exchange ; the Real 
Estate Exchange ; the Coffee Exchange, and a few others. 

The rules governing one govern nearly all, and the same high- 
toned business honor, capacity and financial standing is de- 
manded in all cases of those who are members- 

As a part of the great finance machinery of New York the 
Clearing House, for the facilitating of exchange and settlements 



60 How TO See New York. 

between banks, is an immense mart or place for the daily settle- 
ment of accounts. 

The system was first born in London nearly une hundred years 
ago. In 1853 fifty banks of this city, with $47,000,000 of aggre- 
gate capital, organized the New York Clearing House Association. 

By this system the balances between banks, on account of 
checks and drafts passing one to another, are settled or cleared 
daily. 

The present perfected Clearing House arrangement, in opera- 
tion since October 11, 1853, has a most imposing record. From 
that date to December 31, 1886, its exchanges have reached the 
almost incomprehensible figures of $778,069,921,083, and its total 
transactions in the time named were $812,258,912,962 — more 
than eight hundred billions of dollars, and a billion is a thousand 
millions, or some such trifling matter. Had Adam begun count- 
ing the moment he was created, according to the records given 
in the Bible, say 5,891 years ago, and counted right along with- 
out stopping to eat, drink, sneeze, answer questions or to be 
married, he would have had to make a record of counting at a 
rate exceeding 250 per minute to aggregate the above amount. 

The largest transactions of the New York Clearing House 
Association any one day of its existence were February 28, 1881, 
amounting to $295,822,422.37. The smallest was October 30, 
1857, amounting to $8,357,394.82. The largest sum paid any one 
day by any one bank was November 17, 1868, $10,585,471.31. The 
smallest sum paid by any one bank to balance its daily account 
was September 22, 1862, and the amount one cent. 

There are now in New York City 45 national banks, capital 
$45,150,000, and 28 State banks, with $13,862,700 capital. 

Yes, New York Citj' is something of a money center and quite 
a place for speculation. 

If you wish to know more of the New York Stock Exchange 
and its methods, buy the book written by Henry Clews, entitled 
'•Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street.'" 



Mistaken Ideas of Bankers and 
Brokers. 



Many people who live in the country and enjoy fair to middling 
health, have an idea that all the bankers and brokers worship 
only at the throne of the almighty dollar. Such persons are far 
from their base. While the business man always has his harness 
ready when comes the time to engage in his chosen vocation, it 
is safe to say that a large majority of bankers and brokers, and 
business men generally, are always doing more for chari'y, 
religion, education and human comfort than most people give 
them credit for, simply because they are not parading their gifts 
as do the old sinners who grow scared as they near the place to 
change trains, and wish to fee the porter liberally so they 
can have his influence to get front seats in the next car. 

A large percentage of all gifts and helps to churches, colleges, 
hospitals, societies, parties and charities, come from the bankers 
and brokers whose field of busy action is a bank, office or 
exchange. 

There are in New York scores of missions for health, education 
and charity, that were started on foundations by bankers and 
other business men. The Bleecker street mission for unfor- 
tunate Avomen is one of them. Jerry McAuley's mission, started 
by him in a small way on Water street, at that time the toughest 
place in this country, was sustained and encouraged chiefly by 
business men. At last Jerry McAuley, a reformed tough, started 
a new mission in Thirty-second street near Broadway, where an 
incalculable amount of good has been done by McAuley and 
others. His widow, now one of the most useful and humane of 
women, is devoting her life and time, day and night, at the 
Thirty-second street mission to the reclamation of those who 
have been led astray or gone astray, and fallen into the gutter. 

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62 How TO See New York. 

This mission is largely supported by bankers and business men 
of wealth and warm hearts. 

Wm. E. Dodge, while alive, gave liberally to objects of 
charity, thus doing good and setting good examples. So too 
did Peter Cooper, who, against much opposition from relatives, 
gave freely to the great cause of education. These men have 
gone, but there are others who are even exceeding them in good 
works. 

A. S. Hatch, (of A. S. Hatch & Co., Bankers,) formerly 
President of the Stock Exchange, is another man who has done 
an immense amount of good, and laid up treasures in Heaven 
through his giving of money— and no one knows how much of 
time and comfort — to benefit the poor. He has been of incalcu- 
lable help to save souls from sin and lives from crime and degra- 
dation, and this because it was his pleasure to build up. Such 
men set excellent examples, that all who have means can safely 
follow. 

Morris K. Jessup, another banker and business man of promi- 
nence, gives largely and cheerfully to various objects of charity, 
and this from a desire to benefit. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Vice- 
President of the Young Mens' Christian Association in this city, 
and now the eldest of the celebrated Vanderbilt family, and one 
of the leading railway magnates of the country, gives largely to 
good works and charities, not to court favor but for the satis- 
faction such charities give him. General Clinton B. Fisk, of 
clear business brain and great renown as a temperance advocate 
and worker is another man who is making the world better and 
happier for his being in it. The list of names of public bene- 
factors in this city among the bankers and supposed-to-be exclu- 
sively worldly business men might be increased to fill a book, 
but we have said enough to prove that religion and regard for 
the poor is not confined exclusively to those who occupy pulpits. 



Items ol Interest. 



Abandoned children are sent to the police stations, thence to 
the Foundling Home and kindred institutions. 

At these homes persons of good character, with proper endorse- 
ments, can adopt children as they select them, and take them 
to new homes. 

Abandoned or lost property found by policemen is taken to 
Police Headquarters, 300 Mulberry street, and, if nou called for 
at expiration of a certain time, is sold at auction, the funds going 
to the city uses. 

Articles lost or left in street cars, ferry boats, etc. , are taken 
to the headquarters of these companies and cared for, and sold 
at yearly sales, if not called for. 

Ambulances are called at a moment's notice to hotels, offices, 
stores, shops, rosidences, etc., and the injured or sick taken at 
once to such public or private hospitals as you prefer. 

The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, head 
office at south-east corner of Fourth avenue and Twenty-second 
street, Henry Bergh, President, is one of the most deserving at- 
tractions of the city. Here you can learn how to organize such 
a society at home, get humane people interested, and do a world 
of good. It has ambulances in which sick and injured horses 
and cattle are carried away, and covered wagons into which 
dead animals are drawn, by means of a windlass, to be removed 
without shocking the sensibility of persons. 

Ordinary baths can be obtained at every hotel, and nearly all 
the larger barber shops, at 25 cents. The Russian, Turkish and 
medicated baths are open day and night. 

Beggars will bother you, but you need not pay attention to 
them, as the private and public charities of New York provide 
for all these objects of charity, and it will be better if you refuse 
to listen to their appeals. 

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t)4 How TO Sp:e New York. 

The Bowery, which is more and more of a curiosity each year, 
was, in the early Dutch days, a lane running along the farms or 
Boweries on the northern outskirts of the city. This was a sort 
of lovers lane in the years agone. There was music, picnics, 
dancing, artificial shades in and under which children, youths, 
adults and old age had their fun. Time has changed this lane 
into one of the busiest streets in the world, but it is still a great 
variety exhibit of itself, with its conglomeration of first-class 
business houses, its pawn shops, its manufacturing establish- 
ments, it side shows of various kinds, and the very lively class 
of young people — of both sexes — who crowd into the Bowery 
from sundown till midnight. 

Boot-blacking at the hotels, where not all the world can seethe 
way the understanding of men is i)olished, is ten cents. On the 
streets, at corners and in crowded places, where boot-blacks pay 
from 50 cents to $1.50 a day rental for places to sit their chairs 
for customers to rest in and to read, while having their boots 
blacked, the uniform price is 5 cents. Once, none but poor boys 
blacked boots on the streets. Now, men of all ages are thus en- 
gaged, making from $1.50 to $8 per day bj^ the deft use of the 
brush applied to boots and shoes, and wisp brooms applied to 
clothes. Some boot-blacks now give a penny morning paj^er to 
each customer, while others keep the daily papers at hand for 
customers to read while waiting, as a New Yorker cannot afford 
to lose time. 

Broadway is not a broad street in these modern times, but it 
is, without doubt, the busiest street in the world, and lined with 
fine business blocks, chief of which model edifices are those 
owned by the Equitable and the New York Life Insurance Com- 
panies. The Washington Building, lower end of Broadway, and 
the elegant structure of the Standard Oil Company are great 
attractions. The Potter Building, Park Row, Beekman and 
Nassau streets, occupied by several insurance companies, 
Tlie Judge and other publications, is eleven stories above 
the sidcAvalk, and one of the finest business offices in the 
world. Temple Court, the Stewart Building, and the great store 
of Tiffany & Co., Union Square, and the great dry goods marts 
on Fourteenth and Twenty-third streets, together with the 
Masonic Temple, corner Sixth avenue and Twenty-third street, 



How To See New York. 65 

are all Avorthy of outside and inside examination, simply as 
samples of New York enterprise and progress. 

Calvary Cemetery, the great Catholic burial ground, is on 
Long Island, two miles from Hunter s Point. 

Greenwood Cemetery, the greatest and most artistic burial 
place in the East, is in the city of Brooklyn, in the township of 
Flatbush; is one mile scjuare, contains four hundred and seventy 
acres, and many millions of dollars worth of tombs and monu- 
ments. It is worth an all day visit. While there are several 
mural and intramural interment places in and about New York, 
Greenwood is the only one worthy a regular visit, as one of the 
most beautiful places in this country. 

Central Park, New York City, contains eight hundred and 
forty acres, is two and a half miles long and one-half mile wide. 
It contains seats for 10,000 persons and over 500,000 shade trees, 
shrubs and vines. It is now the fashionable drive. Cleopatra's 
Needle is now in Central Park, as is the apology for a 
Zoological Garden. 

Prospect Park, Brooklyn, is another attractive place, by 
many persons considered more-attractive than Central Park. 

There are several thousand Chinese in New York City. They 
are among the most industrious people here. Their laundry 
establishments are kept open all the time, no loss of rent from 
not using nights. The Chinese are quiet, inoffensive, indus- 
trious. In proportion to population, they give the police and 
lawyers less trouble than do any other residents of the city. 
They are great eaters of chickens, pig pork and good things 
generally, and, when not at work, are as fond of gambling as 
some women are of gossip and tale bearing. 

The concert saloons, once on Broadway, have been moved east 
and are now chiefly on the Bowery and the extension of Park 
Row, till lately , called Chatham Street . There is now no Chatham 
Street in New Y^ork. In these concert saloons fat, fair, frail, 
frizzled and friccaseed females wait on the susceptible youths 
and curiosity-stricken pilgrims from the country who occasion- 
ally desire to see the elephant. They treat the girls who wait 
on them till stomachs are wild and heads are all in a buzz, 
before or after midnight, and the next morning the participators 
in cheap excitement can hardly tell whether they are hot houses 



66 How TO See New York. 

or human beings. Strangers from the country can go here, 
spend their money, and if arrested, give the name of some person 
they have a chunk of spite against, and thus have two or three 
dabs of fun on the same plate. Still, no person is made better 
by hanging around these places, unless he is there to do good. 

Croton water, or water originally from Croton River, now 
comes from nearly all over Westchester county, as her lakes and 
cold water ponds are drained and the water brought to New 
York, where 95,000,000 gallons are used per day. 

The Medical Colleges of New York are among the very best in 
the world, so that persons coming here to learn the science and 
practice of surgery and medicine, make no mistake in thus 
selecting New York as their place of study, practice and ex- 
perience while in teaching or training. 

If you wish anything in New York, advertise for it. For 
a trifle you can attract the attention of the public by patronizing 
the daily papers. 

Of Jews, or Israelites, there are now about 100,000 in New 
York City, and they form a powerful business element. As a 
class they are among the very first, foremost and most prosper- 
ous of the people of New York. They are merchants, bankers, 
lawyers, editors, speculators, real estate purchasers, politicians, 
actors, managers and investors. They have a great regard for 
corner lots, and are filling Broadway, Bowery, Fourteenth street. 
Twenty-third street and up-town residence localities, with 
evidences that they are as thrifty and progressive as are the 
cutest Yankee ever in the great business procession. They have 
twenty six synagogues and temples, nearly fifty smaller meet- 
ing houses, and conduct eighteen charitable institutions in first- 
class manner. They constitute about 10 per cent, of the popula- 
tion, and contribute less than one per cent to the criminal class. 
This makes them a " strange people," but at the same time it 
suggests a very short road to success. 

If you are here on the first of M ly, see that you are not run 
over by the drays, wagons, vans, carts, etc., employed to move 
about 200,000 families from one place to another, chiefly better- 
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Banks. 



The following is the list of the banks doing business in the 
city of New York. The State banks are organized under the 
State banking laws, and the National banks under the act passed 
by Congress during the war. Most of these were formerly State 
banks, and reorgsnized under that act. They are permitted to 
issue circulating notes by depositing United States interest- 
bearing bonds with the Unted States Treasurer at Washington 
to secure their redemption. These notes pass fur their full value 
all over the United States, but are not legal tender money. The 
banks, with their location and capital, are as follows. 



Xatioital Ba/ikK. 

American Exchange, 128 Broadway. 

§5,000,000. 
Bank of Commerce, 27 Nassau st. $5- 

000,000. 
Bank of New York, 48 Wall st. $2,000,- 

000. 
Bank of the Republic, 2 Wall st. Sl,- 

500,000. 
Bowery, 62 Bowery, $250,000. 
Broadway, 237 Broadway, $1,000,000 
Butchers and Drovers', 124 Bowery. 

$.300,000. 
Central, 320 Broadway. $2,000 ,OjO. 
Chase, Pine and Nassau. $300,000. 
Chatham, 19G Broadway. $4.50,000. 
Chemical, 270 Broadway. $.300,000. 
Citizens', 401 Broadway. $G00,000. 
City, .52 Wall st. $1,000 000. 
Commercial, 78 Wall st. $.300,000. 
Continental, 7 Nassau st. $1,000,000. 
East River, 682 Broadway. $2.50,000. 
Fifth, .300 3d av. $1 50,000. 
First, 94 Brcjadway. $.500,000. 
Fourth, 14 Nassau st. $3,200,000. 
Fulton, 37 Fulton st. $300,000 . 
Gallatin, .36 Wall st. $1,000,000. 
Garfield, .378 6th av. $200,000. 
Hanover, 13 Nassau st. $1,000,000. 



Importers and Traders', 247 Broadway. 

$1,-500,000. 
Irving, 287 Greenwich st. $.500,000. 
Leather Manufactm*ers', 29 Wall st. 

$600,000. 
Lincoln, 42 st. $300,000. 
Market, 286 Pearl st. $500,0(H). 
Mechanics', .33 Wall st. $2,000,000. 
Mercantile, 191 Broadway. $1,000,000. 
Merchants'. 42 Wall st. $2,000,000. 
Merchants' Exchange, 2.57 Broadway- 

$600,000. 
New York County, 79 8th av. 

$200,000. 
New York National Exchange, 138 

Chambers st. $300,000. 
Ninth, 409 Broadway. $750,000. 
Park, 214 and 216 Broadway. $2,- 

000,000. 
Phenix, 45 Wall st. $1,000,000. 
Seaboard, 18 Broadway. $.500,000. 
Second, 190 .5th av. $300,000. 
Seventh Ward, 184 Broadway. $300,000. 
Shoe and Leather, 271 Broadway. 

$.500,000. 
Sixth, 6th av. and 33d st. $200,000. 
Tliird, 22 Nassau st. $1,000,000. 
Tradesmen's, 291 Broadway. $1,000,000. 
United States. 1 Broadwav. $500,000. 
Western National Bank, Equitable 

Building. $3,500,000. 



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How To See New York. 



state Bank^'. 

Bank of America, 40 Wall st. f?;in(M).- 

000, 
Bank of North America, 44 Wall st. 

S700,000. 
Bank of the Metropolis, IT Union sq. 

^300,000, 
Bank of the State of New Yoi-k, 38 

William st. S 800 000. 
Columbia, cor. 5th av. and 4-2d st 

$100,000. 
Corn Exchange, 13 William st. Sl.- 

000,000. 
Eleventh Ward, 147 Av. D. ^100,000. 
Fifth Avenue, 531 5th av. 5F100,000. 
German American, 50 Wall st. 8750,000. 
Gerir an Exchange, 330 Bowery. .S200- 

000., 
Germania. 215 Bowery, $200,000. 
Greenwich, 402 Hudson st. .$200,000. ' 
Home, 6.54 8th av. $125,000. 
Madison Square, 23 W. 23d st. $200,000. 
Manhattan Company, 40 Wall st. $2,. 

0.50,000. 
Mechanics' and Traders', 1.52 Bowerv. 

$200,000, 
Mt. Morris, 133 E. 125th st. $100,000, 
Murray Hill, 760 3d av. $100,000. 
Nassau, 137 Nassau st. .Si, 000,000. 
Nineteenth Ward, 3d av. $100,000. 
Ninth av, 922 9th av. $100,000. 
North River, 187 Greenwich st. $240,- 

000. 
Oriental, 122 Bowery. $300,000. 
Pacific, 470 Broadway. $422,700. 
People's, .395 Canal st. $2ai,000. 
Riverside, cor. 8th av. and .57th st. 

$100,000. 
St. Nicholas, Equitable Building. 

$500,000. 
Twelfth Ward, 153 E. 125th st. $100,000. 
West Side, 481 8th av. $200,000. 



Savings Banks. 

American, .501 .5th av. 

Benk for Savings, 67 Bleecker st. 

Bowery, 1-30 Bowery. 

Broadway Savings Institution. 4 Park 

pi- 
Citizens', 58 Bowery. 

Dry Dock, .343 Bowery. 

East River Savings Institution, 3 Cham- 
bers St. 

East Side for Sailors, 187 Cherry st. 

Eleventh Ward, 908 3d av. 

Immigrant Industrial, 57 Chambers st. 

Excelsior, 118 W. 23d St. 

Franklin, 6.58 8th av. 

German, 1.57 4th av, 

Greenwich, 73 6th av. 

Harlem, 2281 3d av. 

Institution for the Savings of Mer- 
chants' Clerks, 20 Union sq. 

Irving, 96 Warren st. 

Manhattan Savings Institution, 644 
Broadway. 

Metropolitan, 1 .3d av. 

Morrisania, 3d av., cor. Courtland av 

New York, 81 8th av. 

North River, 478 8th av. 

Seamen's, 74 Wall st. 

Union Dime, 54 W. 32 st. 

West Side, 154 6th av- 

Foreign Bank Agencies. 

Bank of British North America, Agency 
52 Wall St. 

Bank of California, Agency, 10 Wall st. 

Bank of Montreal, Agency, 59 Wall st- 

Canadian Bank of Commerce, Agency, 
16 Exchange pi. 

Merchants' Bank of Canada, Agency, 
48 Exchange pi 

Nevada Bank of SanFrancisco, Branch. 
62 Wall St. 



Newspapers and Periodicals. 



The following is a list of the principal newspapers and periodi- 
cals published in New York, with their offices, subscription price 
per annum, and specialties. Trade papers are omitted : 



Daily Morning Papers. 

CityKecord. (Except Sunday.) Legal 
and official. Office, City Hall. 

Commercial Bulletin. (Except Sun- 
day.) $12. 32 Broadway. Com- 
mercial. 

Courrier des Etats-Unis. Sl2- 19 Bar- 
clay St. French. Democratic. 

Delnick Americky. (Except Sundays.) 
S8.50- 425E.8tlist. Bohemian. 

Hei-ald. ST.50. Cor. Broadway and 
Ann St. Up-town office, cor. .5th av. 
and 23d st. Independent. 

II Progresso Italo-Americano. (Except 
Sundays.) ST. 2 and 4 Centre st. 
Italian, 

Judisches Tageblatt. 115 E. Broadway. 
Hebrew. 

Journal of Commerce. (Except Sun- 
days.) Sl5« Tfi Beaver st. Com- 
mercial. 

Las Novedades. (Except Sundays.) 
$15. 23 Liberty st. Spanish. 

L'Eco dltalia. S8. 215 Spring st. 
Italian. 

Morning Journal. $4. 5 Spruce st. 
Independent. 

New-Yorker Volkszeitung. $6. 184 
V/illiam st. German. Independ- 
ent. 

New-Yorker' Zeitung. (Except Sun- 
days.) $7. 7 Frankfort st. Ger- 
man, Democratic. 

Register. (Except Sundays.) $10. 303 
Broadway. Legal. 

Staatz-Zeitung. $9. Tryon row, cor. 
Chatham St. German. Democratic. 

Star. $7. 239 Broadway. Demo- 
cratic. 

Sun. $7. Printing House sq. Inde- 
pendent. 

Times. $7.50. Printing House sq. 
Up town office, 1201 Broadway. In- 
dependent. 



Tribune. $8 50 Cor. Printing House 
sq. and Spruce st. Republican. 

World. $7.50. 31 Park row. Up-town 
office, 1267 Broadway. Demo- 
cratic. 

Daily Evening Papers. 
(Except Sundays.) 

Commercial Advertiser. $9. Cor. Ful- 
ton and Nassau sts. Republican. 

Mail and Express. $(5. 23 Park row. 
Republican. 

Evening Post. $9. 208 Broadway. In. 
dependent. 

Evening Telegram. $.5. 2 Ann st In- 
dependent. 

Graphic. (Illustrated.) $9. 39 and 41 
Park pi. Democratic. 

Leader. $3. 184 William st. Labor. 

News. S3. 25 Park row. Independent 
Democratic. 

New-Yorker Herold. S3. 7 Frankfort 
St. German. 

New Yorker Tages-Nachrichten. $3. 
25 Park row. German. Demo- 
cratic. 

Semi-Weekly Papers. 

Journal of Commerce. Wednesdays 
and Saturdays. $5. (See Morning 
Papers) 

Local Reporter. Wednesdays and Sat- 
urdays. $2.50. Cor. 125th st. and 
.3d av. 

Shipping and Commercial List and 
Price Current. Wednesdays and 
Saturdays. $10. 63 Pine st. Com- 
mercial. 

Times. Tuesdays and Fridays. $2.50 
(See Morning Papers.) 

Tribune. Tuesdays and Fridays. $3. 
(See Morning Papers.) 

World. Tuesdays and Fridays. $2. 
(See Morning Papers . 



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How TO See New York. 



Weekly Papers, Etc. 
American Angler. $3. 252 Broadway. 

Fishing and fish-culture. 
American Art Journal. S3. 23 Union 

sq. Music. 
American Hebrew. $3. 500 3d av. 
American Machinist. S3. 96 Fulton st. 

Mechanical. 
Araerikanische Schweizer Zeitung. $2 

18 Ann st. German. 
Army and Navy Journal. S6. 240 

Broadway. Professional. 
Baptist Weekly. S2. 251 Broadway. 

Religious. 
Banner Weekly. $3. 98 William st. 

Literar5^ 
Boys of New York. $2.50. 34 N. Moore 

' St. Juvenile literature. 
Bradstreet's. S5. 279 Broadway. Fi- 
nancial and commercial. 
Bullinger's Monitor Guide. SO. 75 

Fulton st. 
Catholy? Herald. $2.50, 73 Park row. 
Catholic Review. $3.20. 11 Barclay .st. 

Denominational. 
Christian Advocate. $2.50. 805 Broad- 
way. Methodist Episcopal. 
Christian at Work. $3. 216 Broadway. 

Evangelical. 
Christian Herald. $1.50. 63 Bible 

House. Religious. 
Christian Intelligencer. $2.6.5. 48 

Church St. Reformed Church. 
Christian Nation. $2. 252 Broadway. 
Christian Union. $3. 20 Lafayette pi. 

Congregational. 
Chronicle. $3. 33 Pine st. Insur- 
ance. 
Churchman. $4. 47 Lafayette pi. 

Protestant Episcopal. 
Church Press. $1. 20 Lafayette pi. 

Episcopal, 
Clipper. $4. 88 and 90 Centre st. 

Sporting. 
Commercial and Financial Chronicle. 
$10.20. 79 William street. Finan- 
cial and commercial. 
Corner-stone. $2. 38 W. 14th st. Ma- 
sonic. 
Courrier des Etats-Unis. $5. (See 

Morning Papers. 
Court Journal and Official Record. 

$2 50. B'way and Pine St. Legal. 
Critic, The. S3. 743 Broadway. Lit- 
erary. 
Deaf Mutes' Journal. $1 50. 162d st, 

and lOth av . 
Der Freischutz. $2.50. 43 Park row. 
German- Humorous. 



Der Fuehrer. $2.30. 100 Orchard st. 
Odd-Fellowship. 

Der Pfalzer in America. $2. 122 Park 
row. 

Der Republikauer. $1. 26 Frankfort 
st. Republican. 

Der Reporter. $2. 115 Park row. 

Der Sozialist. $2. 172 1st av. 

Deutsch-Amerikanische Volks- Biblio- 
thek. $5 19 Dey st. 

Deutscher Volksfreund. $2.25. l.oO 
Nassau st. German. Evangelical. 

Die Wacht. $2. 45 Park row. 

Digest. $5. 95 Chambers st. Legal. 

Dispatch. $2.50 11 Frankfort st. Lit- 
erary and Masonic. 

Dramatic News. $4. 866 Broadway. 
TheatricaL 

Electrical Review. $3. 23 Park row. 
Electrical science. 

Engineering and Mining Journal. $4. 
27 Park pi. Scientific. 

Engineering News. $4. Tribune 
Building. 

Enquirer. $1.50. 507 W. 49th st. Dem- 
ocratic. 

Enterprise. $1. 1.56 6th av. Colored 
people. 

Evangelist. $3. 150 Nassau st. Pres- 
byterian. 

Evening Post. (Weekly edition of the 
Evening Post is nov\r " The Nation." 
$3.) (See Evening Papers.) 

Examiner. S3. 39 Park row. Baptist. 

Family !-tory Paper (illustrated). $3. 
24 Vandtwater st. Literary. 

Figaro. $2.50. 33 Park row. German. 

Financier. $5. 42 Broad st. 

Fire and Water. $3. 16 Dey st. 

Fireman's Herald. S1..50. 173 Broad- 
way. 

Fireside Companion. $3. 27 Vandewa- 
ter St. Literary. 

Forest and Stream. $4. 39 Park row. 
Sporting. 

Fortschritt, $2. 26 Frankfort st. 
German. Woman's Suffrage. 

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 
$4. 5.3-.57 Park pi. Literary. 

Fi-ank Leslie's Illustrated Zeitung. $4. 
.53-57 Park pi. German. Literary. 

Freeman. $1.50. 4 Cedar st. Colored 
people. 

Freeman's Journal and Catholic Regis- 
ister. S3. 45Wai"renst. Catholic. 

Freiheit. $2.40. 167 William st. So 
cialistic. 



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71 



Freund's Music hi id Drama. S4. ss 
5th av. 

Golden Arjyosy. Si •^'■'5. ^1 Warren st. 
Juvenile. 

Graphic. $2.m. (See Evening,' Papers,) 

Handel's Zeitung-. $U). 7'2 Pine st. 
German. Commercial. 

Harper'.s Bazaar (illustrated). Si- 
Franklin sq. Fashions. 

Harper's Weekly (illustratrd). Si- 
Franklin sq. Literary. 

Harper's Youngr People (illustrated). 
$2. Franklin sq. Juvenile litera- 
ture. 

Hebrew Journal. S2.50. V24 E. 14th st. 

Hebrew Leader. Si- 17 Murray st- 
Denominational. 

Hebrew Standard. $2. 388 Broadway. 

Herald. Si, (See Morninji; Papers.) 

Home Journal. $2. 3 Park pi. Litera- 
ture and Society. 

Hour. S5. 42 Broadway. 

Illustrated Catholic American. S3. 11 
Barclay st. 

Illustrated Christian Weekly. S2-50. 
150 Nassau st. Evangelical. 

Independent. S3. 251 Broadway. Con- 
gregational. 

Internal Revenue Record. $r\ 240 
Broadwaj^. Legal. 

Irish American. S2..50. 12 WaiTcn st. 

Irish World. S2.50. 17 Barclay st. 

Jewish Messenger. $5. 2 W. 14th st. 

Journalist. S4. 117 Nassau st. 

Journal of Commerce. S2- (See Morn- 
ing Papers.) 

Judge (illustrated). So. Potter Build- 
ing. Comic. 

Katholisches Volksblatt. S2.50. 13 
Barclay st. German. Catholic. 

Las Novedades. S8. (See Morning Pa- 
pers.) 

Ledger. S3. William and Spruce sts. 

Literary- 
Life (illustrated). S5- 1155 Bi-oadway. 
Comic. 

Mackey's A. B. C. Guide. S6. 3 Beach 
St. Traveler's Guide. 

Mackey's Office Directory. %4. 3 Beach 
St. Traveler's Guide. 

Mail-Express, Si. (See Evening Pa- 
pers.) 

Maritime Register. $20. 73 William 
St. Shipping. 

Masonia. S2.50. 220 E. 1.5th st. Ger- 
man. Masonic. 

Medical Journal. S5. 1, 3 and 5 
Bond St. 



Medical Record. S5. 56 and 58 Lafay- 
ette pi. Scientific. 

Mercury. S3, 3 Park row. Literary 
and dramatic. 

Mirror. S4. 12 Union sq. Dramatic. 

Musical Courier. S4. 25 E. 14th st. 

Nachrichten aus Deutschland und der 
Schweiz. S-3. 118 William st. Ger- 
man. 

Nation. S3. 210 Broadway. Political 
and literary. 

Nautical Gazette. S4. 73 Park row. 

New Church Messenger. S3. Cooper 
Union. Swedenborgian. 

News, Weekly. Si- (See Evening Pa- 
pers.) 

New Yorker Belletristisches Journal. 
S4. 28 N. William st. German. 
Literary. 

New-Yorker Piatt- Deutscher Post. S2. 
190 William st. 

New-Yorker Schwabisches Woehen- 
blatt. S2.5 ' 24 Beekman st. Ger- 
man. 

New-Yoi-kerTaggsblatt. S2. 148th st., 
near 3d av. German. Local. 

New-Yorke"r Volkszeitung. Si. 50. (See 
Morning Papers.) 

New-Yorker Zeitung. $2. (See Morn- 
ing Papers.) 

Nordstjernau. S2. 81 Nassau st. 

Observer. S3-15. 38 Park row. Evan- 
gelical. 

Oesterreich - Amerikanische 
S2.50. 350 E. Houston st. 

Our Second Century. S2.50. : 
sq. 

Progressive American. S2. 
25th St. Colored people. 

Publishers' Weekly. S3.20. 
row. 

Puck (illustrated). S5. Cor. 
and Mulberry sts. Comic. 
German. 

Railroad Gazette. S4.20. 73 Broadway. 
Mechanical. 

Review. S2. 32 Broadway. Commer- 
cial. 

Rivista Italo-Americano. S2. 215 
Spring St. Italian. 

Rural New-Yorker. S2. 34 Park row, 
Agricultural. 

Sabbath Reading. 50 cents. 21 Vande- 
water st. 

Sanitary Engineer. S3. 140 William st. 

Saturday Night. S1-.50. 21 Ann st. 

School Joiirnal. S2. 25 Clinton pi. 
Educational. 



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Scientific American. S3.20. 361 Broad- 
way. Mechanical. 
Scientific American Supplement. $5. 

361 Broadway. 
Scottish-American Journal. $3. 33 

Rose St. Literary. 
Sonntags-Nachrichten. $1. 25 Park 

row. German. Democratic. 
Sonntagsblatt. %2. 184 Williams st. 

German. Independent. 
Spectator. $4. 16 Dey st. Insurance. 
Spirit of the Times. $5. 101 Chambers 

St. Sporting and Dramatic. 
Sportsman. $4. 46 Murray st. 
Staats-Zeitung. 5f2. (See Morning 

Papers.) 
Standard. S2.50. 25 Ann st. Labor. 
Stockholder. $5. 12 Frankfort st. 

Financial. 
Studio. $3. 30 Lafayete pi. Art. 
Sun. $1. (See Morning Papers.) 
Sunday Advertiser. $1. 217 E. 110th st. 
Sunday Courier. $2- Tribune Build- 
ing. Literary. 
Sunday Democrat. S2.50. 25 Beekman 

St. Political. 
Sunday Times and Messenger. S2.50. 

21 Ann st. Literary. 
Tablet. $2. Cor. Ann and Nassau sts. 

Catholic. 
Texas Sittings. $4. 240 Broadway. 

Humorous. 
Theatre, The. $5. Dramatic. 

Tid-Bits. $1. 50. 14 Vesey st. Humor- 
ous. 
Times. $1. (See Morning Papers.) 

Town Topics. S4. 945 Broadway, So- 
ciety. 

Tribune. $1.25. (See Morning Papers.) 

Truth-Seeker. S3. 28 Lafayette pi. 
Liberal. 

Turf, Field and Farm. $5. 41 Park 
row. Agricultural and Sporting. 

Underwriter. $5. 15 Cortlandt st. 

Union. $2.50. 148th st., near 3d av. 

Local. (Morrisania.) 
Union Printer. $1. 24 N. William st. 
Uptown News. $1. 1164 3d av. 
Up-town Visitor. $1. 247 W. 125th st. 
Voice. $1. 18 Astor pi. Prohibition. 
Weekly. $3. 2.5-31 Rose st. Literary. 
Wheel. $1. 12 Vesey St. Bicycling. 
Witness. $1. 17, 19 and 21 Vandewa- 

ter st. Religious. 
World. $1. (See Morning Papers.) 



Young Christian Soldier and Carrier 
Dove. 80cts. 82 Bible House. Epis- 
copal. 

Young Men of America. $2.50. .34 and 
.36 North Moore st. Juvenile. 

Bi-veekly Papers. 

Acta Columbiana. S2. Columbia Col- 
lege. 

Art Interchange. $3. 37 W. 22d st. 
Decorative art. 

College Journal. $1. 17 Lexington a a-. 

College Mercury. $1. Lexington av. 
and 23d st. 

Deutsch-Amerikanische Farailien Blat- 
ter. $3.90. 19 Dey st. 

Deutscher Familien-Schatz. $3.7.5. 31 
Beekman st. German. Literary- 

Novellen-Schatz. 19 Dey st. Liter- 
ary. 

Semi-monthly Papers. 

Advocate and Guardian. $1. 29 E. 

29th St. Charitable. 
American Bookseller. $2. 10 Spruce st. 
Analyst. $1. 19 Park pi. Popular 

Science. 
Chironian. $1.50. 23d st. and 3d av. 
Columbia Spectator. $2. 49th st. and 

4th av. 
Junges Volk. $2. 17 Vandewater st. 

Juvenile. 
Mechanical News, $1. 110 Liberty st. 
Sunday-school Advocate. 35 cts. 805 

Broadway. Methodist. 
Sunday-school Classmate. 35 cts. 805 

Broadway. Methodist. 
Vereinigte-Staaten Orden und Ve- 

reins Revue. $1.20. 508 Pearl st. 

Fraternity. 
Youths's Temperance Banner. 25 cts. 

58'Reade st. 

Monthly Publications. 

Advance. $2. 117 Nassau st. Liter- 
ary. 
Advance Thought. By Brick Pomeroy. 

$1. 2.34 Broadway. 
Agriculture. $1. 169 Chambers st. 

Dairying. 
American Agriculturist. $1.50. 751 

Broadway. 
American Canoeist, $1. 5 Union sq. 

Canoeing. 
American Garden. $1. 47 Dey st. 
Amei'ican Homoepathist. S2. 78 Maiden 

lane. 
American Journal of Obstetrics. $5. 

56 Lafayette pi. 



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78 



American Kinderirnrtt'ii. $\. ITiH 
Broadway. 

American Medical Digest. fS. 11-2 
Nassau st. 

American Magazine. S3. 180 Pearl si . 
Literary. 

American Messenger. 30 cts. l.")0 Nas- 
sau St. Evangelical. 

Vnu'ricauMissiontiry. .50 cts. 5(lKeade 
.st. Religious. 

American Railroad Journal. S3. 3-23 
Pearl st. 

American Veterinary Review. S4. 141 
W. .54th St. 

Amerikanischer. Botschafter. 30 cts. 
1.50 Nassau st. German. Religious. 

Art Age. $3. 74 W. 23d st. 

Art Amateur (illustrated). S4. -'3 
Union S(i. 

Art Journal. 7.5 cts. 13Deyst. 

Babyhood. S1..50. 5 Beekman st. Hy- 
giene of infants. 

Bankers" Magazine. $.5. 2.5! Broadway. 
Financial. 

Baptist Home Mission. .50 cts. Tem- 
ple Court.- 

Bible Society Record. 30 cts. Bible 
House. 

Book-Buyer. 50 cts. 743 Broadway. 

Catholic Fireside. Si- 5 Barclay st. 

Catholic World. S4. Bnrclay st. 
Literary. 

Century. S4. -33 E. 17th st. Literary. 

Child's Paper. ^1. 1.50 Nassau st. 
Religious. 

Church Mission News. 30 cts. 22 Bi- 
ble House. Episcopal. 

Church Union. Si- 33 E. 22 st. Evan- 
gelical. 

Coin-Collectors" Journal. S2. 721 
Broadway. 

Cosmopolitan. The. S2. 2H Park row. 
Literary. 

Cricket on the Hearth. Si. 27 Park pi. 
Literary. 

Decorator. 7.5 cts. ir,;' K. I2.5th st. 
Mechanical. 

Decorator and Furnishci-. $-1. 32 K. 
14th St. 

Demorest's Illustrated Monthly- S2. 
17 E. 14th St. Literary. 

Divine Life and International Ex- 
positor. Si. 805 Broadw-ay. Evan- 
gelical. 

Domestic Monthly. Si. -50. H53 Broad- 
way. Fashions. 

Dorcas Magazine, Si. 40 Vesey st. 
Knitting and crochet. 



Drake's Traveler's Magazine. Si- Mer- 
cantile Exchange Building. 

Electric Magazine. .S5. 2.5 Bond st. 
Literary. 

El Espejo. S2. 4 Cedar st. Spanish. 

El Progreso. $1. 27 Ann st. Spanish. 

El Repertier Medico. S5. .54 Lafayette 
pi. Spanish. 

Fashion Bazar. S2..50. 27 Vandewa- 
ter St. 

Fire Record. Si. 72 Maiden lane. 

Fireside Monthly. S2. 41 Centre st. 
Literary. 

Fordham College Monthly. Si. Cath- 
olic 

Foreign Missionary. Si- 23 Centre st. 
Presbyterian. 

Foresters' Journal. .50 cts. 7 Frank- 
fort St. 

Forum, The. S5. 97 .5th av. Liter- 
ary. 

Frank Leslie's Budget- S2. 53-57 Park 
pi. Literary. 

Frank Leslie's Pleasant Hours. S1-.51I. 
.53 Park pi. Literary. 

Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. S2 .50. 
53 Park pi. Literary. 

Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine. S2 .50. 
.53 Park pi. Non-sectarian. 

Gaillard's Medical Journal. S5. 22 \V. 
31st St. 

Grand Army Gazette, etc. Si. S5 Nas- 
sau St. Organ G. A. R. 

Guide to Holiness. Si- (52 and64 Bible 
House. 

Hall's Journal of Health. Si- 2'J(i 
Broadway. Hygienic. 

Harper's New Monthly Magazine. S4. 
Franklin sq. Literary. 

Herald of Health. Si. 13 Laight st. 
Hygienic. 

Home Missionai-y- !)0 cts. 34 Bible 
House. 

Homiletic Review. .$2..50. 20 Astor pi. 

Household Companion. 50 cts. 2.57 
Broadway. 

Illustrator of the International Sun- 
day-school Lessons. 60 cts. 124 
Nassau st. 

Insurance Age. .S3. 170 Broadway- 
Insurance. 

Insurance Critic. S3.25. 45 William st. 

Insurance Law Journal. S5. 1-37 Broad- 
way. Legal. 

Insurance Monitor. S3. 137 Broadway. 
Insurance. 

Insurance Times. S3. 19 Nassau st. 
Insurance. 



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liitiTllfltiolial Clu-ss :\lMy-;,zinr. S"!. IC 

Vesey at. 
Journal of Cutaneous and Venereal 

Diseases. $2.50. .5b Lafayette pi. 
Journal of the New York Microscopical 

Society. .Si. 13 College pi. 
Journal of the Telegraph. Sl-">0. lO.") 

Broadway. 
Knickei-bocker Ready Reference (Juidr. 

.S2.50. 46 Bond St. 
Knights of Honor Standard. $1. •-•r.s 

W. 34th St. 
La America. S3. 1<? Beaver si . 
Ladies' Bazar. $2..50. 41 Centre st. 
La(^ies' Floral Cabinet. $1.2r>. 40 Vesey 

st. Literary. 
Ladies' Review. .50 cts. n W. i:^>tli st. 

Fashions. 
L'Art de la Mode. S3.50. f. E. 14th st. 
Library Journal. S3. .31 and 3-2 Park 

row. 
Literary News. Si- 31 and 3^J Park 

row. 
Magazine of American History. .■?.") 

30 Lafayette pi . 
Magazine of Art. S3..50. 739 Broad- 
way. 
Medical Abstract. $1. 93 Fulton st. 
Medical Advocate. $2. 136 .5th av. 
Medical Times. $3. .536 .5th av. 
Morning Light. Si. 1.50 Nassau st. 

Evangelical. 
Mothers' Magazine. $1-50. 3t5 Cort- 

landt St. Domestic. 
>Jational Temperance Advocate. Si. 

58 Reade st. 
North American Review. S.5. 3 E. 

14th St. Literary. 
Our Animal Friends. $1. 5 E. 4th st. 

Natural History. 
Our Social Journal. 35 cts. .3d -ay. and 

130th St. Dutch Reformed. 
Our Society Journal. .50 cts. Potter 

Building. 
Parish Visitor. 50 cts. 2 Bible House. 

Episcopal. 
Pastor. 52 Barclay st. Catholic. 
Penman's Art Journal. Si • 305 Broad- 
way. Caligraphy. 
Phrenological Journal, etc. S3. 7.53 

Broadway. 
Pioneer. 25 cts. 21 Vandewater st- 

Prohibition. 
Popular Science Monthly. S5. 1, 3 

and 5 Bond St. Scientific. 
Presbyterian Home Missionary. Si. 

23 Centre st. 
Pulpit Treasury. S3..50. 771 Broad wa v. 

Evangelical. 



I'oiuts House of 
1.55 Worth St. 



R.-.-ord of tlu- Five 
industry. Si. 
Charitable. 

Rhodes' Journal of Banking. S5. 7S 
William st. P'inancial. 

Sailors' Magazine, etc. Si- SO Wall st. 
Evangelical. 

St. Nicholas. S3. 33 E. 17tli st. Ju- 
venile literature. 

Sanitarian. S4. 113 Fulton st. Sani- 
tary Science. 

Scribner's Magazine. S3. 745 Broad- 
way. Literary. 

Sheltering Arms. Si. 10th av. and 
139th St. Charitable-. 

South. S2. 76 Park pi. 

Sower and Mission Monthly. 35 cts. 
.34 Vesey st. 

Spirit of Missions. Si "50. 22 Bible 
House. Episcopal. 

Stoddart's Illustrated Magazine. Si- 
23Deyst. Literary. 

Sunday-School Journal. 05 cts, S05 
Broadway. Evangelical. 

Teachers' Institute. Sl.25. 25 Clinton 
pi. 

Transactions of the American So- 
ciety of Civil Engineers. 127 E. 
23d St. 

Traveler's Official Railroad Guide. S4. 
46 Bond st. 

Treasure Trove. -50 cts. 35 Clinton pi. 
Juvenile. 

Van Nostrand's Engineering Magazine. 
S5. 27 Warren st. Scientific. 

Wallace's Monthly. S3. 213 Broadway. 
Live stock. 

Young Catholic. S3. 9 Barclay st. 
Literary. Catholic. 

Youth's Cabinet. Si- 63 Barclay st. 

X Y Z Guide. S2..50. 176 Broadway. 

Bi-mon tli ly Pnhl'icaiions. 
Medicine. .S3. 



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Archives of 
23d St. 

Christian Thought. S3. 73 Bible House. 
Evangelical. 

Methodist Review. S3..50. 805 Broad- 
way. 

New Princeton Review. S3. 716 Broad- 
way. Literary. 



^tarterly Piihlicatioiifi. 

S4. 27 

S5. 27 W. 23d 

SI. *3 Ce- 



Archives of Ophthalmologv 

W. 23d St. 
Archives of Otology. 

St. Medical. 
Delta Kappa Epsilon. 

dar St. 



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HomotJopathiu Journal of ()bstetrii:.s. 
$4. 78 Maiden lane. 

Journal of Comparative Medieine. and 
Surgery. $2. 8.')0 (5tli av. 

Journal of Speculative Philo.sophy. $8. 
1, 3 and 5 Bond st. 

Journal of the Military Service Institu- 
tion of the United States. $2. 
Governor's Island and 27 W. 28d st. 

Medico-Legal Journal. $3. 138 Broad- 
way. 



Xortli American Journal of Homoeo- 
pathy. $4. 228 W. 34th St. 

Pilgrim of Palestine. 25 cts. 13.5 W. 
31st St. Catholic. 

Presbyterian Review. $3. 743 Broad 
way. 

School of Mines Quarterly. $2. Cor. 
49th St. and 4th au. 

University Quarterly. $1. Lniver- 

sity Building. 
Xavier. 39 W. 15th st. College. 



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Company. If you are one of its ' 

100,000 POLICY-HOLDERS, 

pleasure will be taken in showing you where are kept the 
securities representing its 

$85,000,000 IN ASSETS, 

accumulating for 42 years. If you are not insured, 
pleasure will be taken in ex'plaining several forms of 
insurance originated by this Company, which will interest 
you. 

One marked feature of the Company's contracts is the 
guarantee of a cash surrender value, at different periods 
after insuring. Another is a guaranteed Mortuary-Divi- 
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of the Policy, in case of death during a specified time. 
Another is an Insurance Bond with Guaranteed Interest. 

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